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Summary: NOT Advanced D&D!
Review: Buyers Beware! This is NOT the ADVANCED Dungeons & Dragons manual, as is stated in the title description above. It is in fact a very simplified version of the BASIC Dungeons & Dragons manual. It is not in hardbacked book form, but comes in a box with some flimsy paper rulebooks. Which is all OK, but note that these rules are clearly aimed at people - children, in fact - completely new to D&D, indeed to the whole idea of roleplaying games. If, like me, you were looking to start generating your own characters with some new players, you won't find those rules in here. All the characters are pre-generated and are somewhat middle-of-the-(ancient cobblestone)-road. Still, it found some use: for my two younger siblings (six and nine), who found it was a fun starting point!
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Summary: Perfect for Beginners
Review: Hate to say but D&D is about as much fun as AD&D. In other words for those that don't know what I'm talking about: D&D=Dungeons & Dragons (very basic) AD&D=Advanced Dugeons & Dragons (very complecated)
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Summary: If you don't know what this is - BUY IT!
Review: This is AD&D at the spot where it all started. Remember the old basic, advanced, and experts rulebooks back from '79? Remember First Quest? The package does have its flaws ( minor, at their worst - after all, if this is your first experience with AD&D, you won't even take notice), but since this deserves a very warm place in every AD&Der's heart, it deserves enough stars to go through the roof ( 5,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 trillion should suffice).Oh, right, what is AD&D. AD&D stands for Advanced Dungeons and Dragons - dragons for the greatest creatures to ever roam our fantasies and dungeons where all sorts of fantasy games started( and where this particular package puts you). The game is played as a sort of collective fantasy - role playing. You make a character, someone prepairs your adventures and you explore. You can't possibly run out of ideas for the game - if you noticed Amazon carries some 700 items on the topic. TSR turned to the place where it cannot possibly fail - release its greatest classic all over again. Let's hope they succeed. My only gripe? Paul Jaquay's picture on the front of the box is trimmed too much.
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