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On 5/17/2024 1:37 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> On Thu, 16 May 2024 09:11:07 -0700, Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> By the time the BECMI system was fully developed, it was almost as
> complex as its AD&D counterpart.
> 
> What set Basic apart wasn't so much its rules system, but how it
> introduced the game system to you bit by bit. The Moldavay - and
> especially the Mentzer books - were just better written tomes. Had
> they done the AD&D rules, I think TSR could have skipped the entire
> AD&D/Basic division.

True, Mentzer was amazing for the intro in the basic set.  Also while 
somewhat of a pain once you were familiar that they were broken up into 
levels and introduced new mechanics in higher level books helped a lot. 
At least the last one also had the Rules Cyclopedia eventually that put 
all the rules in one book.

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-Justisaur

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