![]() In fact, it is the current background for my phone. It remains one of my favorite pieces of gaming art ever. ![]() ![]() The art includes the art from the Basic Set a wizard scries the female wizard and male warrior fighting the dragon. The Expert Set came in a boxed set featuring cover art by Erol Otus. This Moldvay/Cook/Marsh set of rules is often called B/X to separate it from the Mentzer BECMI versions. So we often call this the Cook/Marsh Expert set to distinguish it from the Frank Mentzer Expert Set. On the heels of the Basic Set edited by Tom Moldvay, we have the first Expert Set edited by David "Zeb" Cook with Steve Marsh. That is getting ahead of my narrative.įor this review, I am going to look at the original boxed set, the mini boxed set from Twenty First Century Games S.r.i., and the newer PDF from DriveThruRPG. The Expert set lived up to that set and then blew me away. The Moldvay Basic Set was the high mark for me at the time for what an RPG should be. Just everything from the classes to all the new monsters. I know this because I have very distinct memories of going through the Expert book and just marveling at everything inside. I do know it was sometime after I had the Basic Set. I am not exactly sure when I got the D&D Expert set. The second half, the X of B/X, was the Cook/Marsh Expert Set. But that is only the first half of the story. It was 1980 though that I got my hands on the Moldvay Basic Set and my love affair with B/X D&D. December of 1979 was the time I was first introduced to Dungeon & Dragons via the Holmes Basic edition and the AD&D Monster Manual.
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