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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bhandelman" data-source="post: 5790660" data-attributes="member: 99667">Right, but this box set was $20, not $4.  $20 seems to me to be just right, priced about what I would expect to pay for a family board game.  I can't imagine someone saying "Only $20?  That's way to cheap, there must be something shoddy about it."  Especially if the person making that purchase is a "wise parent" who is unfamiliar with the TRPG market. I think this is hard to argue one way or the other.  I haven't seen any market research to say whether 2 or 4 levels is better, nor any evidence to one side or the other.  I know from my personal experience it didn't matter, I went out and bought a couple of essentials rule books and played at the FLGS.  If it had been 4 levels in the box set, it either would have just taken me longer to go to the FLGS or I would not have finished the box set.  Really it's 6 of one half a dozen of the other in my personal experience.I have seen the opposite of this.  People at the store I go to regularly recommend the red box to people, it an easy way to figure out what the game is like.  The "incompatibilities" aren't an issue because they are so minor and I've never heard anyone even bring that up.I don't think anyone was dismissing the criticisms because "they come from experienced players", it was the fact that most of the criticisms that have been stated are non issues if you haven't played before.  A new player isn't going to avoid the box set because it only has two levels or so of play.  The new player is going to actually appreciate the character creation mini game as opposed to a bunch of dry text and rules trying to explain what choices you want to make for a new character, which can be fairly daunting.  The rules differences between the starter box and essentials are so minor as to be almost completely a non issue.  These are issues I've seen brought up in this thread that are 100% issues experienced players bring up that I didn't even think about when buying the boxed set.</blockquote>

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