OD&D (Original Dungeons & Dragons, White Box): The original edition of the game designed by Dave Arneson and Gary Gygax, first published in 1974 as a boxed set comprising three volumes - Men & Magic, Monsters & Treasure, and Underworld & Wilderness Adventures. With the exception of the Rules Cyclopedia, all of these games were sold as boxed sets. The terms used below are not official, but they are the most commonly used nomenclature in the fan community. The only important thing you need to remember here is that D&D split into two separate games in 1977: Advanced Dungeons & Dragons and Dungeons & Dragons (with the latter often being referred to as Basic D&D or BD&D). If you want an exhaustive detailing of every single change made between each printing of the early rulebooks, then the Acaeum is an excellent resource. If you want more details on the history of D&D, the “Editions of Dungeons & Dragons” article at Wikipedia is a pretty solid resource. In the context of the Reactions to OD&D essays, I thought it might be a useful reference for people who are a little less familiar with the history of the game. I had someone drop me an e-mail requesting a quick overview of the various editions of D&D.
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