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1st level: no magic 2nd level: may receive divine spells 3rd level: potions 4th level: magic weapons 5th level: magic armors 6th level: may receive arcane spells 8th level: all magic items.

To elaborate a bit on this: the "Classic" line of separate products is being discontinued (but the old PDF of the Rules Tome will remain available possibly also in POD). The two new manuals are revision of the "Advanced" tomes. However, the new rules very clearly indicate which elements (rules...

From the FAQs:

Fighters get 1 attack per level against targets with less than 1 full HD. It's the same rule as in AD&D.

Training takes 1-4 weeks, either randomly rolled or chosen by the referee based on player's skill. The idea is quite similar to AD&D 1e and I could find no further discussion in the referee's book. Each week of training costs 400 gp per current character level. If a character trains without a...

It is still a faithful retro-clone. A couple of rules have been changed to make it even closer to B/X.

The optional increase to backstab is triple damage at levels 6 - 10 and quadruple at 11+. It seems to me that the section on thief skills has remained unchanged and nothing from that article in Carcass Crawler 1 has been added, AFAIK.

They get d10, like all martial classes (barbarians, cavaliers, fighters, paladins and rangers). Clerics and druids get a d8 and assassins, acrobats and thieves get a d6. In terms of HD, they get: drow d6/d8, duergar d6/d8, dwarf d8/d10, elf d6/d8, gnomes d4/d6, halfling d6, half-elf d6/d8...

+1 to hit and damage at levels 1-4, +2 at 4-8 and +3 at 9+. If giants are not a threat to the ranger lands in the campaign, the referee may change the enemy type.

I agree. Originally the project was simply a B/X clone for previous players (or those who would be introduced to the game by veterans), but now the situation has changed and a good starter set is... essential.

I've updated the OP with a few links which were spread in the thread.

There are several short examples and they help make the rules clearer. Also, the organization is much improved, with initial overviews of the main rules elements and several indices. All that said, this is not meant as an introductory product. Necrotic Gnome is working on a starter set which...

The new revision is also OGL-free.

That's definitely a plus, I agree. I felt that the show had some issues, but overall I've enjoyed it and I'm glad that they'll make a second season.

I did not attend Lucca Comics & Games, but last week Need Games put the new edition out for general sale and I bought my copy, which arrived today (with included PDFs). As mentioned previously, this is more of a revision than a new edition and the FAQs on Necrotic Gnome website are quite...