>Ah yes, Red Box Basic. I remember it well, may even still have a copy
>of the book somewhere (not any of the rest, of course; definitely not
>any of the terrible dice).
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>(Just for bonus wtf, while the box was in full color, TSR
>apparently didn't have the budget in those days to do the same with
>the book cover, which was the above art all in shades of blue.
>So its full identifier in my head is "red dragon, blue cover".
>Go fig.)

I believe this is the same edition that my dad brought home from a garage sale circa 1987, and tried to run the included module (which IIRC was B2, not B1 -- "Keep on the Borderlands" -- did they maybe randomize which module you got in the box, along with the ruleset?) with myself, my sister, and my mother as players. It didn't go well, because my mom wasn't into it and my sister was too young for something with that many rules.