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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bhandelman" data-source="post: 5787843" data-attributes="member: 99667">Well, I think you are misunderstanding the product.  It isn't meant to educate people about the rules, it was meant to get people interested in buying more DnD products.  That's why they refer to it as a gateway product.  I can't speak to everyone, but in my personal case it is the product solely responsible for getting me back into the game.  I have seen quite a few post, not really here since ENWorld is mostly the old school/hard core crowd but places like Reddit and elsewhere that new people would first go to discuss the game before they find places like this, where people share a similar experience as me.As Dannager said, the product is not for long time players, but for people new or returning to the game.Well, assess quality in your eyes, which is still a subjective comparison.  You could argue the Pathfinder Beginner's box is more complete because it covers more levels, but I can also show that the Pathfinder set is $15 more expensive which can make a difference for a product trying to rope in new players and players long gone from gaming.  I found the quality more than adequate, it got me to go out and buy books and start playing, so in my case it was a success.  It was not meant to lure Pathfinder players back to DnD, or convince 3.5 players to move on to 4e.</blockquote>