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<blockquote data-quote="Iosue" data-source="post: 6075043" data-attributes="member: 6680772">I'm virtually certain you will.&nbsp; I think the idea here is there will be two separate but compatible products: the &quot;standard&quot; game which will be geared to the general RPG market.&nbsp; This will give you all sorts of new options, independent rules modules and the works.&nbsp; For most of the folks here on EN World, this will be the game for them.But in addition to that, they will have the &quot;basic&quot; rules, which will be going after a completely different market -- people who don't regularly role-play, who have never role-played before, and the old schoolers who want simple and/or exploratory dungeoncrawling rules.&nbsp; And the key is, the two sets will be compatible.&nbsp; Someone who bought and plays the basic set can take their character to a game that is using the standard set and fit right in, except for maybe learning some of the other modules that game likes to play with.What I take from Mearls' earlier L&amp;L is that the Red Box Starter Set achieved it's goal of presenting the game with an easy buy-in, and it's sales numbers waxed.&nbsp; But the problem was the Starter Set was only an introduction -- players could only go up to 2nd level, and the game only provided minimal support for further adventures.&nbsp; So they were hooking people in, but not keeping them because keeping them quickly required further buy in.&nbsp; So their goal here is different.&nbsp; They need the easy buy in, but include further support to invest people in the hobby.&nbsp; What they are looking for is that same dynamic of D&amp;D in its high-sales heyday, when many, many people got into the game via the Basic Set (be it Moldvay, Mentzer, or the Black Box), and would then naturally move on to AD&amp;D so they could get more support and options.It also takes advantage of the popularity of B/X in the OSR market.&nbsp; They've talked about plans to release past content, and appear to be about to re-release PDFs of the B module series.&nbsp; They've repeatedly expressed a design intent that classic adventures from any edition could be easily used with Next.&nbsp; So maybe some of the people playing retro-clones now give the basic game a chance.&nbsp; Even if they don't, they may very well be happy to buy other materials, old and new, that support that basic set.&nbsp; Mearls talks about including a super-adventure in the basic set.&nbsp; It would not be at all surprising to see that adventure released independently as well.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Iosue, post: 6075043, member: 6680772"] I'm virtually certain you will. I think the idea here is there will be two separate but compatible products: the "standard" game which will be geared to the general RPG market. This will give you all sorts of new options, independent rules modules and the works. For most of the folks here on EN World, this will be the game for them. But in addition to that, they will have the "basic" rules, which will be going after a completely different market -- people who don't regularly role-play, who have never role-played before, and the old schoolers who want simple and/or exploratory dungeoncrawling rules. And the key is, the two sets will be compatible. Someone who bought and plays the basic set can take their character to a game that is using the standard set and fit right in, except for maybe learning some of the other modules that game likes to play with. What I take from Mearls' earlier L&L is that the Red Box Starter Set achieved it's goal of presenting the game with an easy buy-in, and it's sales numbers waxed. But the problem was the Starter Set was only an introduction -- players could only go up to 2nd level, and the game only provided minimal support for further adventures. So they were hooking people in, but not keeping them because keeping them quickly required further buy in. So their goal here is different. They need the easy buy in, but include further support to invest people in the hobby. What they are looking for is that same dynamic of D&D in its high-sales heyday, when many, many people got into the game via the Basic Set (be it Moldvay, Mentzer, or the Black Box), and would then naturally move on to AD&D so they could get more support and options. It also takes advantage of the popularity of B/X in the OSR market. They've talked about plans to release past content, and appear to be about to re-release PDFs of the B module series. They've repeatedly expressed a design intent that classic adventures from any edition could be easily used with Next. So maybe some of the people playing retro-clones now give the basic game a chance. Even if they don't, they may very well be happy to buy other materials, old and new, that support that basic set. Mearls talks about including a super-adventure in the basic set. It would not be at all surprising to see that adventure released independently as well. [/QUOTE]

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