I got the white box set ( box is gone) in 1977, and then thru trades, gifts and saving up spending money I managed to pick up supplements I thru IV in a couple of years.
I know Swords and Spells isn't technically a supplement for OD&D, but me and the guys I gamed with it considered it Supplement V and if you said you had all the books ( a huge status symbol to own all of them), then you better be able to produce "Supplement V" too.
I've searched off and on for Swords and Spells for years, but the pricing was always way too inflated, especially since the book is for use, and not a collection. Last week I picked it up on ebay for a sensible price and now I can cross that off the list and move on to Chainmail.
One guy in our group had Chainmail, but after reading thru it, most of us never implemented a lot of it - at the time is was more technical than we needed, and although it was present at most of the sessions, it was rarely referred too,yet it was the primary guide for the "house rules" we established for our play. I still would like to get a copy, so I'll keep looking and maybe get lucky.


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