arthurbdd's review
4.5
Moldvay/Cook might be the best repackaging of the original D&D rules into an easily-understood basic game - sure, sure, the planned Companion rules had to wait for the Mentzer-penned revision of the basic game, but in practice the game always functioned best at the dungeons-and-wildernesses levels covered by B/X. The main downside here is that Basic only goes to 3rd Level and incorporating the material from Expert requires a bunch of cross-referencing. Full thoughts on this and other TSR-era D&D editions: https://refereeingandreflection.wordpress.com/2016/01/11/tsr-editions-of-dd-what-are-they-good-for/
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