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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Reynard" data-source="post: 6343888" data-attributes="member: 467">The two products are different, with different goals. The Starter Set is intended to introduce you and a few friends to D&D and whet you appetite for the PHB and beyond. The Beginner Box is intended to take longer in introducing itself but in the end not just whet appetites but create gamers. They both go to level 5, but the only way to get there in the beginner box is for the group to create its own mini campaign or buy adventures. The Starter set is a one and done kind of thing. The BB GM has to do all the real work of a GM, while the SS DM gets a lot of hand holding and isn't asked to do the heavy lifting of creating new adventures.The genius of the Starter Set is that it does not preclude a more Beginner Box like product down the line. Pathfinder was a mature product before the arrival of the BB, and that product benefitted greatly thereby. A year or two from now, a 5E extended starter set would similarly benefit.As an aside, it is interesting to note that the Beginner Box created what I think is an unintended consequence for Paizo's. Many longtime Pathfinder players bought the BB and after seeing the streamlined and simplified rules used in that product, began asking for support for the BB. They wanted Pathfinder's version of tBECMI D&D. That was never a goal of the BB -- it is intended to draw players into full Pathfinder.Now that 5 E has appeared and seems to scratch that "simpler, streamlined" D&D itch, it will be interesting to see how Paizo's responds and if the BB does form the ore of a secondary line.</blockquote>

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