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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 6071002" data-attributes="member: 1465">The more I read the L&L article again, and the more confused I get... <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/erm.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":erm:" title="Erm    :erm:" data-shortname=":erm:" />Not that I am in a rush to find out what they are going to publish, but certainly my English must be bad because I read hints at completely different things. "We're going to make an RPG product called Dungeons & Dragons" means he's talking about ONE single item (book or box) with a single price tag, right? But does it replace the 3 traditional core books, or will they also be published (in which case I guess "core" will then refer to the single item from now on)?He says the item is not a sampler but provides the capability to run a full campaign. First, that doesn't tell me at all that it includes a setting or a story arc (and he specifically says it's not a game to run a single adventure, if you have a story arc, that's practically a long adventure, even if you can call it a "campaign"). I think here he just means that the item contains everything from level 1 to the last level... if it ends at level 5, it's clearly a "sampler" isn't it? What if it ends at level 10, is it still a sampler or is it not, on the ground that 10 levels are often enough for a full campaign?I hardly believe that they mean the item will be huge like Pathfinder, otherwise the price tag will seriously put off most of the potential new players, thus it must be slim, maybe 50-60e max.So then it must be so that they simply will keep the material limited. Four classes, four races, a minimum number of spells, feats, monsters etc... Only the minimum information for the DM. Very few modules in the core, probably just the narrative combat and tactical combat (otherwise a lot of the D&D usual crowd won't even look at the new edition).Then I look at the current playtest packet (excluding adventures), and it has a total of 276 pages, with the caveats:- it's written in fairly large fonts compared to 3ed core books, so can be shrunk a good 20% at least- some material in the current playtest may be completely removed (no magic items in core?)+ no narrative combat and tactical combat modules yet+ no artwork yetIt might be possible to fit everything under 300 pages and 50e if they give up magic items and only put max 100 monsters, but I'm not sure I like the sound of that...</blockquote>

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