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<blockquote data-quote="Andor" data-source="post: 4278731" data-attributes="member: 1879"><p>The "Basic intro box set" has been tried a couple of times since the classic D&D days, and I think it's pretty much always a failure. Just how long have those 3.5 basic sets been sitting on the shelves?</p><p></p><p>The existing player base doesn't buy them because they already have the full game. And if they have a friend they want to introduce to the game they are perfectly capable of making an introductory scenario complete with pregenerated characters. I think we've all done that once or twice.</p><p></p><p>So really the only target market is people who are interested in D&D but don't know anyone who plays it. And of that segment a boxed set really only does favors for a small group looking to dip their toes in the water to see if they want to buy the full books.</p><p></p><p>Consider. Would you think it would be a good deal if you could buy a $45 version of <em>Keep on the Shadowfell</em> that came in a box with minis of all the heros, tokens for all the monsters, a set of dice, and a coupon for $10 off the gift set? </p><p></p><p>WotC didn't think so, or they could have made that just as easily as the $30 module they did sell. The Red box was different, because it was the full system, up to level (6? 8? I forget.) Then you bought the Expert set and so on up the chain. The more recent box sets are just shadows of a larger system.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Andor, post: 4278731, member: 1879"] The "Basic intro box set" has been tried a couple of times since the classic D&D days, and I think it's pretty much always a failure. Just how long have those 3.5 basic sets been sitting on the shelves? The existing player base doesn't buy them because they already have the full game. And if they have a friend they want to introduce to the game they are perfectly capable of making an introductory scenario complete with pregenerated characters. I think we've all done that once or twice. So really the only target market is people who are interested in D&D but don't know anyone who plays it. And of that segment a boxed set really only does favors for a small group looking to dip their toes in the water to see if they want to buy the full books. Consider. Would you think it would be a good deal if you could buy a $45 version of [I]Keep on the Shadowfell[/I] that came in a box with minis of all the heros, tokens for all the monsters, a set of dice, and a coupon for $10 off the gift set? WotC didn't think so, or they could have made that just as easily as the $30 module they did sell. The Red box was different, because it was the full system, up to level (6? 8? I forget.) Then you bought the Expert set and so on up the chain. The more recent box sets are just shadows of a larger system. [/QUOTE]
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