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But customer "retention" is not the same thing as winning back an ex-customer. Keeping your current customers happy is a winning strategy. Changing your product to appeal to ex-customers in a way that may piss off your current customers, probably not so much.

I think this still evades the point. The Red Box clearly does 2 things. 1) It provides an unmissable entry point into the game for new players. It sits there on the shelf and says "BEGINNERS, BUY ME FIRST!". 2) It clearly points new players to the next set of products they need to purchase in...

I think there are two issues in play here... The first is the question the OP brought up; is the entry point into D&D too confusing. The second is; are the entry point products things that you, personally, would want to buy. The fact that individual people don't like them doesn't invalidate the...

I was suggesting the RC and a one month subscription to DDI, just to see if your interest in the game survives first contact. Think of it as a cheap preview of all the material you might want to purchase in print if you like it.

Yes! Also, tracking torches, arrows, sling stones, flasks of oil, spell components, encumbrance, etc. I'm fine with resource management at the power/action level, but I didn't sign up to play Debits & Dollars when I rolled up my Wizard.

The population of people who do not post at ENWorld does not necessarily equate 1:1 to the "average" gamer. I know any number of gamers who regularly engage in "deep" and thoughtful analysis of the systems they use who do not post at ENWorld. I've also seen numerous analyses of games here at...

If you want to get involved with 4e, the Rules Compendium and a DDI subscription are all you really need to get started.

I don't know how ENWorlders could make that claim, given that we are playing exactly the same game as everyone else. We have no special access to information about how the game works. The guys who play weekly games and have DDI subscriptions but don't post to messageboards are just as likely to...

or 3e or 4e? :p

How is that not support?

Heroes of Shadow contains plenty of support for classes from PHBI (Wizard and Cleric spring immediately to mind), so I guess we're safe. Whew! That was a close one. :erm:

I think HoS is pretty awesome and the latest offerings from the online magazines are seriously tempting me to resubscribe, so I have a hard time saying at this moment that WotC is in shambles. Two months ago? Sure. But it looks like they are now moving in the right direction.

If you want a little more room to play with, Hirst Arts also makes 1.5 inch floor tile molds.

qft.

Yeah, because God knows you wouldn't want huge swaths of your player-base to actually be excited about using the material you are trying to sell them. That way lies disaster. :confused:

I think you should be aware that there is no basis in scientific fact for this statement. We tend to remember things that support our biases and forget things that disprove them. This is called the Confirmation Bias and it affects both memories for the past and our judgement of evidence in the...

The character creation rules are as "different" between 3e and Pathfinder as they are between AD&D and OSRIC, which has been my one and only point in this thread.

I think feats were ported into 4e with basically the same schtick as they had in 3e and that was a huge mistake. Powers should have killed feats and taken their stuff. Then, feats should have been reincarnated with a different purpose. My problems with feats in 4e in no particular order: 1) WAY...

Given that Pathfinder contains character creation rules which are basically identical to 3e D&D (character creation rules which are specifically not included in the SRD or covered by the OGL), I guess we can safely agree that Pathfinder is in the same murky gray area, crushable by frivolous...

This bolded above is also true for retroclones, and obviously so to anyone who has ever bothered to actually pick up and read OSRIC, LL or S&W.