Tom Moldvay

Welcome to BX Brew.

We're playing the 1981 Moldvay edition of BX Dungeons & Dragons.

We are running lots of different modules at the same time as well in a multi-module madness that I don't think anybody else does.

We're running Barrow Maze by Greg Gillespie.

Welcome.

We are playing, as always, the Moldvay Basic Dungeons and Dragons.

It never works with my green screen.

It looks weird, but it's the 1981 Basic Moldvay.

B, X. Dungeons & Dragons, just the basic, not the X.

The B, not the X.

Basically [chuckles] everything after Zero Edition that was considered basic D&D up through the original era.

So that is from, uh, you know, the, the Eric Holmes version through the Moldvay BX, uh, as well as the, uh, Frank Mentzer BECMI, et cetera.

So, uh, we'll be going through that stuff, uh, but before we do, uh, please do make sure wherever you are listening to this podcast, uh, series, which is the Red Rooster's Gaming Coop, uh, series of shows, that you do like, subscribe, follow, whatever option you have available to you, uh, to do so.

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Um, but it is absolutely still the white box/ uh, wood gray box just with training wheels.

But they've kind of refined some of the stuff now to be a little more recognizable today from what we see, right? Uh, it really is a bridge.

I think this specific version of Basic is a bridge from the 1974 rules, uh, the original set, through to the more, uh, polished versions of Basic that we're about to see, including this one, right? But this, this was an important piece to get us to the next one, Moldvay and the, uh, what's it called? The Mentzer versions.

So let's move on then to, uh, the Moldvay Basic set, 1981.

We do have a real lack of... trapped boxes in what we've been doing so far i do hope we get one there was one in um palace of the silver princess right at the beginning there was a trapped something or other um yeah you weren't here when we did that it's um i don't know if you've ever played it before um but it's like B3, so it's still one of the training modules for BX.

and the whole heart well it's quite famous because um they brought out one version of it and then they withdrew it and stopped printing it because um it was really weird and it also had some what they considered to be questionable content i don't think it was that questionable i i think it i don't know what it was actually i forgot but it was maybe it was some boobs or something um in it So they pulled it and then Tom Moldvay rewrote it from the ground up.

Totally different.

Sounds boobs.

It's Saturday night in the UK and it's time for BX Brew again.

We are running the 1981 BX edition of Dungeons & Dragons by Tom Moldvay.

We're running loads of modules at the same time, it's bonkers.

And we've just introduced two new ones.