Ever scoured the Internet looking for what exactly you were missing from the old board game you pulled from your closet, only to find no one who could give you the answer? Well, stop that fruitless searching through endless google results, as this featured this week on What’s In That Game Box? is TSR, Inc.’s classic roleplaying game brought to board game life, The New Easy To Master Dungeons & Dragons Game.
The NEW Easy to Master Dungeons & Dragons Game
The contents of The New Easy To Master Dungeons & Dragons Game are as follows:
The game box (featuring the iconic image of Jeff Easley’s Red Dragon painting- a red dragon doing battle with a man armed with a battle axe)
The game board (a fold-up 21″ x 31 1/2″ map with 34 “room” entries)
The D&D Game Instruction Sheet: Read This Sheet First!
The DM screen (with several tables and charts on a red background)
The Dragon Card Learning Pack (stored within the DM Screen, which contains 48 double-sided pages of information on play Dungeons & Dragons, as well as four 4-page pullout adventure module chapters to help new DMs run the Escape from Zanzer’s Dungeon adventure)
6 colored game dice (white 4-sided, blue 6-sided, white 8-sided, yellow 10-sided, white 12-sided, and red 20-sided)
2 sheets of fold-up counters, which comprise of the following:
- Adelle
- Axel
- Blind Man
- Bug Bear [x4]
- Dwarf / Goblin [x4]
- Dwarf / Guard
- Dwarf / Kobold
- Green Slime
- Gnomes
- Goblin / Guard
- Jerj
- Kamro
- Minotaur
- Ogre [x2]
- Orc [x4]
- Prisoner
- Rock Python
- Slave / Gnoll [x3]
- Slave / Hobgoblin [x4]
- Sprites
- Wolf
- Zanzer Tem
- Zombie [x4]
- Plus 7 un-named counters, each with a different portrait on both sides
A TSR, Inc. Spring/Summer 1991 product catalog.
A TRS, Inc. product brochure on the Dungeons & Dragons Rules Cyclopedia
A full-sized fold-out poster of Jeff Easley’s Red Dragon painting
A special offer card for a subscription to Amazing Stories
The Customer Response Card
The 64-page Rule Book
Aside from a very well-laid out inner cardboard separator piece which keeps the box intact, that’s it! Hopefully this helps you find your way into enjoying “hours of high adventure in the world of cunning wizards, mighty warriors, and ferocious dragons!”
Game board for the New Dungeons & Dragons Game
Counter sheets for the New Dungeons & Dragons Game
DM Screen and Dragon Card Learning Pack for the New Dungeons & Dragons Game
Rule book and sheet for the New Dungeons & Dragons Game
Dice and miscellaneous papers for the New Dungeons & Dragons Game
Giant fold-out poster for the New Dungeons & Dragons Game
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I shockingly still have a complete copy. It was my very first RPG you know… Ah, the days…
Thanks for the nostalgic trip!