Version 5 of the most legendary role-playing game, Dungeons & Dragons, was recently released. However, the “original” version is still very much alive. Of all the successive versions of the rules, the one that has probably had the greatest impact on the history of the game is the Basic/Expert version, released in the early 1980s, the famous “red box” written by Tom Moldavy.

Published from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s, this is the version that accompanied the RPG boom, enabled the creation of the gaming community, and, beyond that, shaped the entire nascent geek culture, both in the field of board games and video games (XP, levels, stats, etc.) as well as the new relationship with the imagination that gaming created.