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Message ID: 41
#41, RE: Elder Days Story Time: The Red Box
Posted by jonathanlennox on Dec-19-17 at 12:50 PM
In response to message #17
>>Ah yes, Red Box Basic. I remember it well, may even still have a copy

>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.

I had the edition with "Keep on the Borderlands"; it's probably still in a closet in my mother's house somewhere.

It says something about me (what, I don't know) every time I see that title, from the day I first saw it until this one, I try to sing it to the tune of the Carter Family's Keep on the Sunny Side.