When TSR decided to revamp the Basic D&D line in 1982, that meant revising both the Basic Rules and the Expert Rules. Mentzer had no objections because he thought that "Isle of Dread" was "one of the best design jobs ever". Because the new Basic Rules didn't have an adventure module, they said there "darn well better be one in Expert". The inclusion of "Isle of Dread" was apparently a requirement from the powers-that-be at TSR. This was a new, second edition of "Isle of Dread" (1983), laid out in TSR's new D&D trade dress and featuring a more attractive interior thanks to TSR's new Product Finishing department. Instead of a having second rulebook, the Expert Rules' second book is X1: "The Isle of Dread" (1981). However, the Expert Rules is unique among the BECMI boxes because it's the only one where the rules are contained in just a single, 64-page book. The Expert Rules box also contains another set of "low impact" dice and a crayon for coloring them in. Like the rest of the BECMI series, this one came as two books in a box: the "blue box", not to be confused with the original Holmes edition of the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set (1977), which is also blue. To highlight the wilderness focus of the Expert Rules, the new cover features a fighter on horseback battling a dragon out in the middle of nowhere.Ībout the Box. Larry Elmore continues to keep dragons front and center on the BECMI covers. Starting with the Companion Rules (1984), all the Frank Mentzer's D&D rules would follow this new format for naming.Ībout the Cover. For their second printing that title was updated to "Set 2: Expert Rules", which definitely makes more sense. Frank Mentzer's Expert Rules were originally published as "Expert Rules Set 2". It was published in August 1983 - or perhaps a bit later.Ībout the Title. The D&D Expert Rules Set (1983), by Frank Mentzer, is the second iteration of the boxed Expert Rules for Basic D&D and the second volume in Mentzer's BECMI rules series. This product does not include X1: "The Isle of Dread". This is the 1983 edition of the D&D Expert Rulebook, part of the "BECMI edition."
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