Boxed Sets 2018 Style

[MNblockhead]

I don't want core rule box sets. I want adventure box sets. Like Beadle & Grimm, but focused on minis and battlemaps and less on tchotchkes. Give me EVERYTHING I need to run the adventure. An affordably priced option would have paper battlemaps and punch out cardboard counters/pogs. A premium option would have wizkids pre-painted minis and maybe some premium poster maps, cloth maps, and hand outs.

Beadle & Grimm's is heading in the right direction, but I worry it is priced too high to be successful. I would like to see something similar but priced so that it could be sold in Target and which an average middle-class parent or grandparent would consider buying it a gift.

 

[Parmandur]

I don't want core rule box sets. I want adventure box sets. Like Beadle & Grimm, but focused on minis and battlemaps and less on tchotchkes. Give me EVERYTHING I need to run the adventure. An affordably priced option would have paper battlemaps and punch out cardboard counters/pogs. A premium option would have wizkids pre-painted minis and maybe some premium poster maps, cloth maps, and hand outs.

Beadle & Grimm's is heading in the right direction, but I worry it is priced too high to be successful. I would like to see something similar but priced so that it could be sold in Target and which an average middle-class parent or grandparent would consider buying it a gift.

Issue there is, the adventure books already give most groups everything they need: text, maps, and handouts. Miniatures or physical representation of any kind are not a universal feature of play.

 

[bedir than]

I don't want core rule box sets. I want adventure box sets. Like Beadle & Grimm, but focused on minis and battlemaps and less on tchotchkes. Give me EVERYTHING I need to run the adventure. An affordably priced option would have paper battlemaps and punch out cardboard counters/pogs. A premium option would have wizkids pre-painted minis and maybe some premium poster maps, cloth maps, and hand outs.

Beadle & Grimm's is heading in the right direction, but I worry it is priced too high to be successful. I would like to see something similar but priced so that it could be sold in Target and which an average middle-class parent or grandparent would consider buying it a gift.

The B&G set has more than 2 dozen minis and dozens of battlemaps

 

[Rhylthar]

I would like to have something like this for 5E:


I own all the boxes of Forgotten Realms, Planescape, Dragonlance and Greyhawk. I really like them a lot more than "books only".

 

[MNblockhead]

Issue there is, the adventure books already give most groups everything they need: text, maps, and handouts. Miniatures or physical representation of any kind are not a universal feature of play.

Well, sure. They could continue to sell the book as it and a separate supplement set.

 

[MNblockhead]

The B&G set has more than 2 dozen minis and dozens of battlemaps

Right, but the price point is not going to work for most DMs.

Hasbro should be able to sell a much more modestly priced set with less premium components.

 

[Sacrosanct]

Boxed sets, the OG vs the new. Still doing it Yes, I do still have a shrink wrapped copy of both sets

 

[Parmandur]

Right, but the price point is not going to work for most DMs.

Hasbro should be able to sell a much more modestly priced set with less premium components.

B&G was going to have less premium boxes; those seem to have disappeared?

Maybe there isn't a major, viable market for more-than the Starter Set but less-than the B&G? WotC has tried before, but none of those products seemed to last.

 

[gyor]

Issue there is, the adventure books already give most groups everything they need: text, maps, and handouts. Miniatures or physical representation of any kind are not a universal feature of play.

The key market for box sets isn't APs, it's settings, which simply aren't being given enough meat.

 

[CubicsRube]

I don't want core rule box sets. I want adventure box sets. Like Beadle & Grimm, but focused on minis and battlemaps and less on tchotchkes. Give me EVERYTHING I need to run the adventure. An affordably priced option would have paper battlemaps and punch out cardboard counters/pogs. A premium option would have wizkids pre-painted minis and maybe some premium poster maps, cloth maps, and hand outs.

Beadle & Grimm's is heading in the right direction, but I worry it is priced too high to be successful. I would like to see something similar but priced so that it could be sold in Target and which an average middle-class parent or grandparent would consider buying it a gift.

I still remember owning the ultima 9 box with it's cloth map of Britannia.

Oh my lordy, give me a tea towel map of the sword coast and some fake parchment letters and I'll run you an adventure!