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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Trickster Spirit" data-source="post: 6324462" data-attributes="member: 6701829">:raises hand:You've had a whole bunch of people raise their hands at this point, so this is less about me pointing out that plenty of groups have been started by DMs who've never played before, and more to point out that that still happens - I'm 25 and started DMing two years ago, and have never played in another DMs game. <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=":)" />The reason I think that's actually important is because I think it explains a lot of what Wizards is attempting with the new edition that has caused a lot of perplexedness here on the forums. WotC is actively trying to cultivate groups like this with this edition. The biggest barrier to play has never been the price of the core books but the difficulty of finding a group (and DM). A lot of people have said this but WotC's big new push is to focus on D&D the brand rather than D&D the tabletop game, but a key strategy towards that goal is to grow the number of people who've been exposed to D&D by playing in at least a game or two, so that when the movie or the cartoon or the computer game or the breakfast cereal comes out their inclined to by it. Their accomplishing this by creating a boxed starter set that you can find on the shelf with the boardgames at your local Walmart / Target / toy store, containing a not-overly-fiddly version of the game that means newcomers don't have to find an existing DM to get into the game. They want people fighting monsters, making jokes about Charisma and swinging +1 swords in as little time as possible, and they want them doing it in the Realms so that when the movie comes out and Drizzt kicks orc / drow / beholder butt they'll already be familiar with the setting.And for people who already play the game and don't like the Realms, that's no skin off of our back - they've said repeatedly the core books are setting neutral, and there's nothing preventing us from changing place and NPC names the way DMs always have.</blockquote>

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