Editing Basic Dungeons & Dragons (section)

==The Rules Cyclopedia by Allston, Schend, Pickens and Watry==

[[Image:Rules Cyclopedia Cover.jpg|thumb|Rules Cyclopedia]]

===Rules Cyclopedia===

In 1991, TSR was looking to wind down the Basic line in favor of the newest edition of [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] but recognized the need to end it on a bit of a high note. As such, they took much of the rules from the Mentzer BECMI line and compile them into one book, the Rules Cyclopedia, with additional rules brought in from the various Gazetteers as they saw fit. While the RC focused mostly on the Basic to Master line of rules, it did touch on the Immortals rules but didn't go too deep with them, favoring instead to release an update to the Immortals rules in its own box set called ''Wrath of the Immortals'' later on.

The Rules Cyclopedia was out of print for years and for a while would cost you quite a bit of money to buy (some copies were selling up for $300 dollars) so Wizards of the Coast (seeing some people begging for reprints of the older D&D works) put the Rules Cyclopedia up for Print-on-Demand in 2018. The PoD version is a surprisingly good copy of it. The only major changes between the reprint and the original is the cover was slightly tweaked with the image now being somewhat smaller than the original and the new paper being of a different quality which makes the reprint the same page count but slightly thicker. It is sold in a softcover version for around $25 and a hardcover for around $30.