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SemperJase said:Dancey essentially admits D&D is too complicated by showing the necessity of a boxed set. It pretty much the only product that gets new people into the hobby. Can anyone learn D&D without someone else demonstrating the game?
Seems to me that if ANY product they have is a "gateway product" , its the miniatures game, rather than the boxed set. I can easily see kids buying those as toys, and then learning more about the pieces and how to fight them against each other - the basics of rollplaying, if not roleplaying. But Wizards is really missing the boat getting those stocked almost exclusively in with the other RPG\CCG products, rather than getting at least some of them stocked in, for example, the toy department at Wal-Mart.
Speaking of which, I've frequently though somebody missed something good when it came to the Tech Specs on the backs of Transformers packages. They look like somebody was trying to make an RPG, but never finished the job....