Henry
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Brought this down to it's more correct place - Ignore Torm's allegations of time travel; it won't be perfected for another 17.172 years, until after Gary Gygax's Head becomes President. -HL
*raises hand*
Actually, there's me.
I bought the Erol Otus Cover Red Box (Purple Box? Time faded the thing) of the Tom Moldvay edited version of D&D basic rules. I was DM, I helped the group (my four cousins) create their first characters, and we adventured in White Plume Mountain - at 1st level. Had the rules been as expansive then as they are now, I doubt I would have either (a) bought them or (b) learned to play. There's something to be said about a $20.00 entry product that gives you the basics, eliminates a lot of complexity, and sets you out there with a sample dungeon and a mission. As it was, they riddled past the Sphinx, got killed by a green slime, and we started over again. They got to the ghouls and died again, and so on...
I still plan to buy S.T. Cooley Publishing's OGL-Fantasy Lite Basic Player's Guide some time to see if it's the kind of thing I need to recommend to beginners, but it sounds like it.
There is a PREVALENT need for an attractive, introductory package that doesn't include 5' steps. If WotC's new D&D box set does the trick, then great. If they don't, but Cooley's does, then great. if neither fit the bill, then the search goes on.
Torm said:Seriously, though, I don't believe I know anyone who came to play RPGs or other similarly detailed wargames without being "brought into the fold" by someone else.
*raises hand*
Actually, there's me.
I bought the Erol Otus Cover Red Box (Purple Box? Time faded the thing) of the Tom Moldvay edited version of D&D basic rules. I was DM, I helped the group (my four cousins) create their first characters, and we adventured in White Plume Mountain - at 1st level. Had the rules been as expansive then as they are now, I doubt I would have either (a) bought them or (b) learned to play. There's something to be said about a $20.00 entry product that gives you the basics, eliminates a lot of complexity, and sets you out there with a sample dungeon and a mission. As it was, they riddled past the Sphinx, got killed by a green slime, and we started over again. They got to the ghouls and died again, and so on...
I still plan to buy S.T. Cooley Publishing's OGL-Fantasy Lite Basic Player's Guide some time to see if it's the kind of thing I need to recommend to beginners, but it sounds like it.
There is a PREVALENT need for an attractive, introductory package that doesn't include 5' steps. If WotC's new D&D box set does the trick, then great. If they don't, but Cooley's does, then great. if neither fit the bill, then the search goes on.