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I sometimes DM for a friend who is a skimmer as he reads. He doesn’t seem to be aware that he’s skimming. If when he casts a spell, I ask him to read aloud the text of the spell, he’ll read the first sentence aloud and then sum up what it does the way he remembers it. Then I’ll ask him to...

The hit point tokens say HP on them, are the shape of hearts, are punched out from a punch board where they are labeled “Hit Point Tokens” the Quickstart shows every item and labels them Hit Point Tokens and Page 3 of the Quickstart shows them placed in the space which instructs you to place Hit...

if OPs players were unable to find this entry explaining Hit Points in a 30 page booklet, i would certainly not recommend they start with the PHB. (Page 15)

They are labeled as “Hit Point Tokens” and there’s a photograph of them stacked where the card tells you to place them, on page 3 of the "Read Me First" quickstart. I'm attempting a good faith understanding of your posts here, and finding it harder and harder. I feel like whenever you say...

Yeah I find the sassy tone distancing. Like I'm being "hello fellow kids" talked at. As the old joke goes: "Sincerity is the key. Once you can fake that, you've got it made!"

The term "Character Boards" is a misnomer, as they are really "Character sheets of slightly thicker paper". I have laminated mine. Would love them to be actual boards. Would have liked tokens to be plastic. I agree that the dice are not nice, and would have preferred the quality of dice the...

I specifically pointed out point by point where the information you wanted walked you through, step by step in the "Read Me First" Quickstart guide, and specifically asked if you missed it. Instead you respond-- not to informational posts-- but by reacting to the tone of non-informational...

I will say you interact in a way that I find frustrating to converse with. After a bit, I realize that I’m not sharing my experience as someone who owns, has read, and enjoys the product. I’m merely setting up targets for you to say is bad, will provide a bad experience for new players, will...

I mentioned the internet, and said “Purchasers of the box set will have many avenues to get more information about the game.” Your direct response was, “Sure, if they get past the starter set”. How is the starter set impeding their ability to get perspectives on D&D outside of the starter set...

I’m not even sure what you mean by this. You can’t possibly be saying that if a new player learns from the starter set, they won’t know about Baldur’s Gate 3, DNDBeyond, websites like this, DND Podcasts, etc, until they “get past” the material in it. What are you saying?

Agreed there. The Shop Window, not the store. But I’d go further. This is merely a Shop Window. The Core books are another. Baldur’s Gate 3 another. The movie another. Dndbeyond yet another. Actual plays even more. I disagree. Purchasers of the box set will have many avenues to get more...

The starter set goes from level one to level three. Is this the “style” they are “pushing for new players”? Is Wizards now dropping tiers 2,3&4? Oh only the Wizard, Cleric, Fighter and Rogue? Are they “pushing” the core four? Wither the Barbarian, the Paladin and the Bard? It is a...

In interviews with the lead designer. Why would you think that, from a teaching adventure? More people learn how to GM. Why would you think from one adventure specifically designed to teach new players how to play the basics, that this signals a complete change to the game forever and long...

It makes total sense to me, given the stated goal that this set was for short sessions with changing DMs. This whole adventure is bite-sized encounters with only an emergent plot, if that. Tailored exactly to this design goal. Is that the design goal you would choose if uou were designing...