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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Transformer" data-source="post: 5811133" data-attributes="member: 70008"><a href="http://paizo.com/beginnerbox" target="_blank">This. This is what I want.</a>Dear Wizards.I don't know whether Paizo beat you at system design; in fact, I think 4e is pretty great. One thing's for certain, though: they annihilated you and buried your meager ashes on introductory boxed set design.The Pathfinder Beginner Box is perfect. Absolutely perfect. It covers 5 levels. That's a great range. When's the last time you made an intro box set that covered more than 2 levels, Wizards? Oh, never, did you say?It has two beautiful softcover books, totaling close to 200 pages. They are lavishly illustrated; very evocative.The players' book includes full character creation rules, very cleanly presented. It has simple, to-the-point instructions for leveling up characters. Your latest boxed set had, what, a solo adventure for making characters, and then no other character creation rules so that you had to play through the same **** adventure every time someone needed to make a character? Good friggin' job, Wizards. The DM's book is a masterpiece. It has pages of magic items. It has pages of information on different sorts of adventures and the environments they take place in, including a nice sampling of environmental hazards. It has something like 50 different kinds of monsters.And then there are the pawns. Oh, the pawns. We're talking rectangular pieces of heavy cardstock (like you make dungeon tiles out of) that have very nice art of different monsters on them, and that slot into plastic mases so they stand up. They are beautiful. They are functional. That are a hundred times better than flat cardboard counters, and they can be used alongside miniatures without looking ridiculous. The set comes with scores and scores of them; something like 90.Wizards, I don't care if you copy the Pathfinder Beginner Box page for page and monster for monster. Just do it. Do exactly what Paizo did. Your intro boxed sets are terrible. You should be ashamed of them. This, this is what an intro box looks like. Do it, Wizards. 5 levels, stand-up pawns, a complete roleplaying game that you could play for years (though you won't; you'll be inspired to buy more books instead!)</blockquote>

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