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Message: <blockquote data-quote="IronWolf" data-source="post: 5271525" data-attributes="member: 21076">I would hope Paizo would be up front about it.  That this Pathfinder Basic is a starter set, everything you need to buy this box, take it home, read some rules and start rolling the dice and moving the tokens/minis on a map we provide.  This will get you into the early levels of the game.This would be for the folks that are curious about what it is all about, or for gifts to introduce new players who might not have considered RPGs before or been too intimidated of the big hardback books.  People would certainly have the choice of either starting their path in Pathfinder gaming with either the Pathfinder Basic set or know they are going to play this game and I want the full set of rulebooks now.Quite true.  But I remember going on to buy the Expert set, then the Master set, Companion rules, Master and even the Immortals back then.  I don't remember feeling disenfranchised, but I was young then - possibly not looking at money quite the same way.  And then during the course of all that, started gathering up all the AD&D books. And more recently I used a D&D 3.5 Basic Set to intro my son to gaming.  The ruleset was more limited but used the same mechanics as D&D 3.5.  It worked great for introducing IronPup to the game.  We popped the box open, ogled the minis, gave the dice to IronPup and within twenty minutes was able to start playing.  We had  great time!  The price was right as well if I recall.Now in that case I already had a boat load of D&D 3.5 stuff, but if I hadn't I don't think I would have felt like I wasted my money on the Basic set only to need to move on to get the full PHB, DMG and MM to continue playing.  Rather the basic set was well worth the minimal investment to act as a stepping stone to the big books.  Plus we got some map tiles, minis and dice out of the deal.</blockquote>

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