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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 5343622" data-attributes="member: 2525">I learned D&D from the Blue Cover basic set.  And that book frequently made references to AD&D, and it was clearly written to get people to graduate into AD&D.  That was I think the point of calling one basic, and one advanced.  Only later did it really become it's own fully functional game.  And even then, the Basic book was always intended to get you to buy some other book...the Expert book being the next in line eventually.  And then there were modules, and dice, and miniatures, and magazines...it was always stuff intended to get you to buy other stuff.  That's the nature of it being an ongoing business venture.You can play a lot of real games with the new Red Box.  It's a mischaracterization to call it purely advertising.And I disagree with Justin, I think this will be a success, and I think he's wrong about some of those prior products.I disagree.  The images can be compelling without knowing their origin.  It's not like they are non-images.  They're quite evocative of a certain type of art and music and style that, as someone else pointed out, is frequently already popular right now elsewhere in places like Adult Swim.It's a release of D&D.  That's all it needs to communicate.  The Box is Back isn't necessary information to achieve the goal of getting people who like that kind of ad to buy that game.I can see the title just fine, and the URL font doesn't look difficult to read to me either.  It's a 30 second spot so they were not going to communicate what D&D really is with more than the images they already portrayed. I think the ad just isn't for you, but communicates well to the people it's directed at.</blockquote>

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