AmerginLiath
Adventurer
This is BRILLIANT!
First off, I love it. Grab an adventure, download the BDD rules PDF document, and start playing. We've seen that WotC is already using Kobold Press for their Tyranny of Dragons path/event, so it looks much more likely that they'll be allowing outside companies to write adventures, even if not sourcebooks. Between that and DRAGON/DUNGEON adventures that will appear (some likely for free early on) and the conversions that have come out with the playtest or other conversion notes they release for old adventures, there will be lots of options for cheap or even free introductions to Fifth Edition.
The importance of that is that folks are balking at the $50/book price even if they agree that it's fair, because it's a new system that they haven't played yet. However, get them enjoying the basic game for a few months (maybe a 1-20 campaign) on the cheap and and remind them of the other ~8 races and classes, multiple subclass options, dozens of campaign modules, and hundred of extra monsters & enemy organizations sitting there in the Core Rulebooks waiting there for them in a game they now already love? SALE!
(but, even for those who buy the Core Rules from the get go, imagine having the Basic Rules, a couple of PDF adventures, and a die roller on your laptop or tablet at all time -- you can now literally play proper-albeit-option-slim D&D at a moment's notice!)
First off, I love it. Grab an adventure, download the BDD rules PDF document, and start playing. We've seen that WotC is already using Kobold Press for their Tyranny of Dragons path/event, so it looks much more likely that they'll be allowing outside companies to write adventures, even if not sourcebooks. Between that and DRAGON/DUNGEON adventures that will appear (some likely for free early on) and the conversions that have come out with the playtest or other conversion notes they release for old adventures, there will be lots of options for cheap or even free introductions to Fifth Edition.
The importance of that is that folks are balking at the $50/book price even if they agree that it's fair, because it's a new system that they haven't played yet. However, get them enjoying the basic game for a few months (maybe a 1-20 campaign) on the cheap and and remind them of the other ~8 races and classes, multiple subclass options, dozens of campaign modules, and hundred of extra monsters & enemy organizations sitting there in the Core Rulebooks waiting there for them in a game they now already love? SALE!
(but, even for those who buy the Core Rules from the get go, imagine having the Basic Rules, a couple of PDF adventures, and a die roller on your laptop or tablet at all time -- you can now literally play proper-albeit-option-slim D&D at a moment's notice!)