Flipping through my 3.0E first printing book, I noticed the "2000 survival kit" appendix, 16 pages with bare-bones DM info to tide the players over until the DMG 3.0E and the MM were released.
It covered CL, experience awards, treasure, a few monsters, and a "do it yourself" dungeon.
It was, if I remember correctly, enough to run a 3E game.
Now, given the recent thread about MMOGs and the barrier to entry, I wonder if adding 15 to 20 pages with such DM information to the PHB would be a cheap "starter kit", allowing new players to start playing with simply one book, instead of 3.
Thoughts?
It covered CL, experience awards, treasure, a few monsters, and a "do it yourself" dungeon.
It was, if I remember correctly, enough to run a 3E game.
Now, given the recent thread about MMOGs and the barrier to entry, I wonder if adding 15 to 20 pages with such DM information to the PHB would be a cheap "starter kit", allowing new players to start playing with simply one book, instead of 3.
Thoughts?