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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5351159" data-attributes="member: 22779">You failed to answer my question, so, no, it hasn't been explained to me.What did the Mentzer Basic set, which I happen to actually have sitting in front of me right now, have that the 4e Starter Set does not?Both are level 1-3.  Both have chargen rules.  Both have very, very limited replay value.I guess the biggest difference is that if you skip the Starter set and go straight into Essentials, you still get the basic information.  If I skip the Mentzer Basic boxed set and go to the Expert rules, all I've got to go on is a single page of information in the Expert rules that summarizes some of the information in the Basic rule book.Granted, I don't get any of the monsters or anything like that.  So, I actually am forced to buy the Basic box first and then the next box after that.So, how exactly is this different this time around?  Why is the 4e Starter set a pay to preview set and Mentzer Basic isn't?</blockquote>