Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="DarkMasterBR" data-source="post: 4791601" data-attributes="member: 82263">Yeah, I hate it too. I think it has the potential to be frustratingly confunsing to a new player.Another &quot;very minor thing&quot; that I absolutely hate everytime I read is the PHB sections on &quot;what you need to play&quot;, and they list D&amp;D miniatures there. I hate this so much, because when I started playing, back at 2001 (I think) with the original d20 Star Wars core rulebook (yeah, talk about unortodox start), I had absolutely NO idea how to play the game, and I remember to be very confused by the fact that all I needed was one single book and some dice. But there it was, in the &quot;what you need to play&quot; section, that was it.Now, someone with the same knowledge I read there would read and ask for the miniatures price on the store, and be VERY confused on the booster model of business. And I can tell you that, if that was me, I would never look at RPG again because of how expensive it was. I didn't have a friend who played for years to tell me &quot;don't worry, it's only marketing&quot;.Of course, today said person wouldn't even open the book, probably, because they would be confused and outraged at how many &quot;core&quot; books you need to play.So yeah, it might be a minor thing, but I hate it, because I'm sure it would have driven me away if it was like that when I picked up my first rpg book.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DarkMasterBR, post: 4791601, member: 82263"] Yeah, I hate it too. I think it has the potential to be frustratingly confunsing to a new player. Another "very minor thing" that I absolutely hate everytime I read is the PHB sections on "what you need to play", and they list D&D miniatures there. I hate this so much, because when I started playing, back at 2001 (I think) with the original d20 Star Wars core rulebook (yeah, talk about unortodox start), I had absolutely NO idea how to play the game, and I remember to be very confused by the fact that all I needed was one single book and some dice. But there it was, in the "what you need to play" section, that was it. Now, someone with the same knowledge I read there would read and ask for the miniatures price on the store, and be VERY confused on the booster model of business. And I can tell you that, if that was me, I would never look at RPG again because of how expensive it was. I didn't have a friend who played for years to tell me "don't worry, it's only marketing". Of course, today said person wouldn't even open the book, probably, because they would be confused and outraged at how many "core" books you need to play. So yeah, it might be a minor thing, but I hate it, because I'm sure it would have driven me away if it was like that when I picked up my first rpg book. [/QUOTE]

Verification