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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Echohawk" data-source="post: 5240165" data-attributes="member: 9849">I'm not convinced that intending that the Essentials line makes it cheap and easy to get into the game, and structuring the essentials line to sell more products to those who can afford it are mutually exclusive goals.RPGs are luxury purchases. You don't buy RPG products unless you've already paid the rent and bought food. People have wildly varying amounts of cash to spend on luxury purchases. Some will have just $20 to blow on the starter set. Others will have a budget of $100, and will want to pick up the starter set, an expansion book, a pack of minis and some dice. Ideally, any product range consisting of luxury purchases should be designed to soak up as much of someone's discretionary spending as possible. That's just a sensible business approach.However, that strategy certainly doesn't make it impossible for you to design the basic set to be both cheap and an easy way to get into the game by itself.The original red box met both of those objectives. It was a cost-effective starting point, but it also had plenty of (optional) supplements and expansions to soak up more discretionary spending from people who could afford to buy more. I'm hoping that the Essentials line manages to do the same thing.</blockquote>