I Just Pre-Ordered the 4.5 Red Box...

[UngeheuerLich]

I am confused, is it 4,18333333 now?

 

[Scribble]

4th edition is very Zen... It just IS man.

 

[vagabundo]

I am confused, is it 4,18333333 now?

It is the Orc and Pi edition: 3.14159.

 

[Alaxk Knight of Galt]

Anyway, I am excited about the Red Box, but not for myself, but as a gift for some kids I know...

I actually think this is the sole purpose of the product. Sure, some people will buy it out of nostalia's sake. But it's the gift market that WotC was chasing. It's a lot easier to give a $25 box set with "everything you need to play" then it is to get the three core rule books and a set of dice.

 

[Scribble]

I actually think this is the sole purpose of the product. Sure, some people will buy it out of nostalia's sake. But it's the gift market that WotC was chasing. It's a lot easier to give a $25 box set with "everything you need to play" then it is to get the three core rule books and a set of dice.

I think this is the real reason for the "nostalgic art" as well.

It's not really intended to get existing lapsed players back, but for people who once played D&D long ago in a game store looking for something o buy a son/daughter/niece/nephew/younger sibling/creepy friend as a gift.

"Hey I remember this game... we had so much fun..."

 

[WhatGravitas]

I think this is the real reason for the "nostalgic art" as well.

Also: It's retro. Retro[1] is always in, somewhere, somehow. Could pull in some people who think it's neat - just like the internet's permanent obsession with steampunk!

[1] Retro as in retro-music or retro-fashion.

Cheers, LT.

 

[Wrathamon]

would you be calling it 4.5 if it was PHB IV, MMIV, and Unearthed Arcana, opposed to Essentials

 

[Imaro]

would you be calling it 4.5 if it was PHB IV, MMIV, and Unearthed Arcana, opposed to Essentials

I guess that would depend on how many changes to the rules those products were introducing to the previously established core rules...as well as the CB and AT...wouldn't it?

 

[Amphimir Míriel]

I think this is the real reason for the "nostalgic art" as well.

It's not really intended to get existing lapsed players back, but for people who once played D&D long ago in a game store looking for something o buy a son/daughter/niece/nephew/younger sibling/creepy friend as a gift.

"Hey I remember this game... we had so much fun..."

Well, every single lapsed player that buys that box and plays again or every new kid that gets that box as a present and gathers his buddies to make a new gaming group is a net win in my book.

Really, whenever you like 4E, Pathfinder, C&C, OSRIC, etc.... Every single new player we get into our decidedly niche hobby is worth gold.

Really, we need to support our hobby

...

I for one, am planning on buying a couple of these sets and donating them to a local youth group

 

[scylis]

would you be calling it 4.5 if it was PHB IV, MMIV, and Unearthed Arcana, opposed to Essentials

Well, if you think of each PHB as a "new content adding patch", then I think the essentials would be 4.3.numbers (4.3.1.numbers for the "first" Essentials book, 4.3.2.numbers for the "second" and so on).

PHB being 4.0.1.numbers, MM being 4.0.2.numbers, and DMG being 4.0.3.numbers (MM and DMG might be switched around). PHB2 would be 4.1.1.numbers, PHB3 would be 4.2.1.numbers, and so on from there. Each new chunk of errata would modify the numbers in the "numbers" section (one could make the case for them being the date which they were released on).

That's, of course, if one goes by each new PHB being the key switch point for the second number, anyway. That might be troublesome if there is ever more than 10 PHB-equivalents, but so far they're doing ok.