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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sam" data-source="post: 1378195" data-attributes="member: 1024">As always, Your Milage May Vary....  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  As Merric points out, there are a few target audiences here.  You (and I) were part of the target audience that bought a game (in my case [and sounds like yours too] it was the Red Box Basic Set) and read the game cover to cover before sitting down to play.  There is a whole other group of people who want to play something, without having to learn all of the rules first.  My wife fell into this category.  At first, she just wanted to play.  Now, she's a full-out gamer!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  She likes the whole process of creating the character, figuring out the background and motivations, deciding how he/she willl be "different", etc.  But when we first started to play she wasn't interested in the creation.  In fact, if we had sat down with even a scaled down set of character creation rules, I think that there would have been a good chance that she wouldn't have made it to rolling the first initiative check. There have been other's whom I've introduced to the game through the Gold Box (3.0) set, and they had a positive experience from it.  I doubt they'll ever become true gamers, but I wouldn't be surprised if they ask to play again.  Albeit with the Adventure Game rules.   I know they wouldn't have wanted to play if we had to go through a character creation process prior to getting started.   The "Gamers" who buy the Basic set as their introduction will, by necessity, quickly graduate to the core rulebooks.  There will continue to be a target for a basic game though, where people can sit down and play with little or no understanding of the rule system.  Where they will be given a character sheet for Regdar or Jozan, and it will have their character abilities (in simplified form) and a limited spell list already defined for them.  Hopefully, some of these people will become gamers and move on to bigger and better things.  For those that don't, well, I think the more that play, even in a limited format, the better.</blockquote>

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