Was it Alliance? I'm pretty sure that's the one my FLGS uses.
My FLGS sold me the Red Box early.
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Was it Alliance? I'm pretty sure that's the one my FLGS uses.
Ahrimon
Bourbon and Dice
Have you heard anything about Other Realms doing an Essentials games day?
ExploderWizard
Hero
It might have been. My FLGS uses them too and there was a slight delay. The shipment with the redbox was supposed to arrive last Thursday but didn't show up until Friday. We had to wait an entire extra day!! Oh noes!
The perfidy of game distributors having run its course, I finally have my red box and can now stop whining like a crybaby.
Unboxing it was a fun experience, and while I'm still digesting the contents I'm liking it. It seems like an excellent introductory set: it is inexpensive, the player's book uses a solo adventure to walk you through character creation, and the box and contents themselves are nice enough in quality that a person could reasonably value actually owning them.
Especially in the case of younger players, I think that the last point will be important. It is engaging enough as a thing that it will draw one's attention back to it.
For me, having a 1983 style Elmore cover Red Box is just awesome. It's like the 80's, man! Ronald Reagan! The Soviet Union! The invasion of Grenada! A time of moral clarity, when you actually knew the bad guys' address and had their bases on a big map and they wore uniforms and showed up at places at predictable times and stuff. Yeah, nostalgia.
Also, being able as a 1st level Wizard to turn a bad guy into a toad. Yes. I take back anything bad I ever said about 4th edition. Being able to whip out a magic wand and just *zap* some fool into toad-dom. Very much yes.
Unboxing it was a fun experience, and while I'm still digesting the contents I'm liking it. It seems like an excellent introductory set: it is inexpensive, the player's book uses a solo adventure to walk you through character creation, and the box and contents themselves are nice enough in quality that a person could reasonably value actually owning them.
Especially in the case of younger players, I think that the last point will be important. It is engaging enough as a thing that it will draw one's attention back to it.
For me, having a 1983 style Elmore cover Red Box is just awesome. It's like the 80's, man! Ronald Reagan! The Soviet Union! The invasion of Grenada! A time of moral clarity, when you actually knew the bad guys' address and had their bases on a big map and they wore uniforms and showed up at places at predictable times and stuff. Yeah, nostalgia.
Also, being able as a 1st level Wizard to turn a bad guy into a toad. Yes. I take back anything bad I ever said about 4th edition. Being able to whip out a magic wand and just *zap* some fool into toad-dom. Very much yes.
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