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Message: <blockquote data-quote="blakk" data-source="post: 2017723" data-attributes="member: 28495">HAILS to all!  May yer women always be happy to see yah and may your kids all know who yah are! I’m an uber noob, new to DnD and new to these forums. I love what eyebeans had to say.In regards to the last comment” not enough new gamers" I can comment cause I happen to be one. i have found that in DnD gamers beget gamers. The problems i personally faced was the PHB. I read over it and it plain old did not make sense to me. Now i had really good friends who patiently explained things to me as we went along, but i ask you. Why is the main book that a noob at this game gonna have to read, not designed for the noob reader? There should be an unber noob section with progressive flow charts, and an advanced part for the old vets. Personally if feel like the pen and paper industry is designed around the Old vets and doesn’t cater to guys like me. also, im like in my 30's and have NEVER in all my life any recollection of ANY add or marketing for DnD. the Pen n paper industry relies to heavily on word of mouth and the veteran players.Hence its decline. I mean when is the last time you put any effort into getting someone at work playing? The lord of the rings trilogy was the greatest opportunity to get people playing this game. And it came and it went. I hear that they are doing the hobbit. The hobbit. Most possibly the foundation that started it all.My point is a market that is not marketed is a dead market. Which brings me to the next part of my noob experience.The dnd game store. I finally went to a game store to pick up a book (again i only knew where it was because my vet friends told me). I walked in and well, was overwhelmed. I was under the impression that there was only dnd. Boom i saw what seemed to me every pen and paper game known to man. and guess what? the guys behind the counter just kept spewing stats to each other. I asked then for info on dnd and classic battle tech. the pointed to the corner and was like "Over there". so I left.  too bad there isn’t a place on the web that reviews gaming stores as well as gaming stuff. Personally i think that publishers are going to have to go online to sell their stuff. I would rather pay for a good download and print it later (at work =D  )   than go thru the hassle of dealing with the game store clique</blockquote>

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