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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 5967530" data-attributes="member: 22424">Ideally, just about everybody would be taught by someone else who already plays, or failing that they would revert to a really good Starter Set for the game.In which case your Starter Set should explain what RPGs are, teach the game, and include those really good adventures the OP mentions. And the Core Rulebooks could then omit all that stuff, and instead deal with the nuts and bolts of how to play this game - as taught to someone who already knows "What is an RPG", etc.In reality, a significant number of people will skip directly to the Core Rulebooks, bypassing any Starter Set. And, indeed, many of them will buy the Core Rulebooks, and only the Core Rulebooks.Which means that it must be possible to learn the game from just the Core Rulebook.(Incidentally - the OP's suggestion of making sure there's a really good first adventure, and indeed treating that very much as a "fourth Core Rulebook" is a good one in its own right. I'll all in favour of getting more, better adventures! Unfortunately, I doubt the majority of people buying the game would treat it as a must-have of that sort, nor do I think most new players would recognise it as the teaching aid it was intended to be. Sadly.)</blockquote>