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Finding enough people interested im roleplaying at all and with enough overlapping free time can be very very hard.

And it's a great suggestion, too. Laying some groundwork to counter the Forever DM phenomenon is an excellent idea.

Yup. The starter box seems to have been primarily designed to onboard new players, incorporating some design practices from modern...

But he went on to acknowledge the rulebook but claimed it didn't do a good job teaching new players.

You have to watch the videos to figure things out. The videos are far more clear and more in depth than the book on character creation...

He explained that he had all the same information that was supposed to be there, and the only lengthy objection I saw (a lot of folks...

BECMI Red Box remains my favorite start set for any game.

Also, the character cards clearly tell you where to put the background and ancestry cards:

Page 18: "A caster's spell save DC and spell attack modifier are both listed on the character's Class Board." On the cleric card, it's...

So for anyone that has the box, is this the case in the Play Guide? It does include the basic DnD rules, as above assumes? I think...

I have both the Read Me First and the Play Guide. In the Read Me First all it says is It goes over the card items in the component...

I feel very strongly that this is going to be one of those threads that goes on for 30 pages of people complaining about or attempting...

Come on they are just setting the expectations for new DMs. "We haven't included any rules because your players won't read them or even...

So if you look at Todd Kenreck's unboxing video, you'll see here he flicks through the Play Guide book. That contains the game rules and...

I wouldn’t think it was a packing mistake. He bought 4 boxes. Presumably one or more of the boxes would have included everything.