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<blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 6311006" data-attributes="member: 19857"><p>Except that Mearls has said that tactical combat won't be in the Basic rules, and that it will be in the Dungeon Master's Guide, which is an optional book. If the Starter Set is supposed to be a bridge product to get people to play the Basic game, and to buy adventures and play them only with the Basic game without the "advanced" books, then putting things in the Starter Set to support tactical combat only confuses your potential future players. Why does the Starter Set they bought have all of this superfluous fluff in it when the rules they downloaded don't use it and the Tyranny of Dragons adventure that they bought doesn't use it either? Or worse - why does the Starter Set have all this cool poster map and token stuff but the Tyranny of Dragons adventure doesn't? At best it comes off as garbled and confusing - at worst it could come off as bait-and-switch ("Wow this game is pretty neat - let me lay down $35 for this adventure to play with it. Hey - why is this adventure missing all of the fiddly bits that make the game so fun?").</p><p></p><p>There is a difference between "all styles are supported" and "the style that we expect beginners to use is X". The Starter Set falls into the latter category. Based only on what's been said about them so far the Basic set likely falls somewhere in between and the advanced books are there to make sure that the former is completely covered.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jer, post: 6311006, member: 19857"] Except that Mearls has said that tactical combat won't be in the Basic rules, and that it will be in the Dungeon Master's Guide, which is an optional book. If the Starter Set is supposed to be a bridge product to get people to play the Basic game, and to buy adventures and play them only with the Basic game without the "advanced" books, then putting things in the Starter Set to support tactical combat only confuses your potential future players. Why does the Starter Set they bought have all of this superfluous fluff in it when the rules they downloaded don't use it and the Tyranny of Dragons adventure that they bought doesn't use it either? Or worse - why does the Starter Set have all this cool poster map and token stuff but the Tyranny of Dragons adventure doesn't? At best it comes off as garbled and confusing - at worst it could come off as bait-and-switch ("Wow this game is pretty neat - let me lay down $35 for this adventure to play with it. Hey - why is this adventure missing all of the fiddly bits that make the game so fun?"). There is a difference between "all styles are supported" and "the style that we expect beginners to use is X". The Starter Set falls into the latter category. Based only on what's been said about them so far the Basic set likely falls somewhere in between and the advanced books are there to make sure that the former is completely covered. [/QUOTE]
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