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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MerricB" data-source="post: 1265948" data-attributes="member: 3586">My main objections to the Adventure Game are as follows:* It doesn't cover character creation at all.This is a fairly major one. I've just been corresponding with an 17-year old who has only just picked up his first D&D PHB after playing one session of D&D. He has been utterly confused by character generation. The multiplicity of options is the biggest factor in this.I really feel there needs to be a simplified form of character generation in the Basic set. You should have pre-generated characters - no problem - but also something to introduce the idea of creating your own characters. At the moment there's a big step between the Adventure game and the PHB - too big, IMO* It covers only levels 1 and 2.In 3E, those levels go by so fast...Levels 1, 2 and 3, please. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />From WotC's point of view:* It is expensive to produce, and makes very little profitBack during that mortality.net interview with Ed Stark before 3.5 was released, a question was asked of him about the Basic set (which I'd posed). He explained that the dice are incredibly expensive, and by the time you add everything else, there's very little profit to be made. That, and it doesn't sell that much.* It's not flashy enough.It's scary how much people will spend on their children these days. I liked the Adventure Game because it was cheap, but have a look at the production values that went into the LotR RPG introductory sets! When you compare it to a bunch of other board games (like Civilisation, Risk, etc), the little cardboard tokens begin to pall.You and I aren't the main targets of this, remember. To a certain extent, something that can be acquired cheaply isn't valued as much.Sad, but true in my experience.Anyway, those are my reasonings. I hope they made some sort of sense. Anyone else got some thoughts on this?Cheers!</blockquote>

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