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Message: <blockquote data-quote="buzz" data-source="post: 1697195" data-attributes="member: 6777">This is effectively what the new Basic set is, but without making the incredible mistake of creating a whole separate game. The Basic set presents players with a limited menu of options to use with a set of pregenerated PCs while still being essentially 3e D&D. This is good, because *options confuse newbies*. This also very close to what the original blue-book Basic set was back in 1977.Then, once they move on to full-on D&D, they will have passing familiarity with the basic components of the system, rather than having to be taught a whole new way of doing this ("Feats? What are those?").The core of d20's D&D is, IMHO, pretty simple. Your class defines your role. Your abilities tell you who you are. Your skills define what you know. Your feats are unique powers. I don't see any need to make a special, even simpler version of it specially for newbies.The new Basic set will be good. I only hpoe that we'll see it grace the shelves of Toys R' Us.</blockquote>