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Message: <blockquote data-quote="IronWolf" data-source="post: 5573918" data-attributes="member: 21076">I think more people are willing to spend $35 on a boxed set that has everything they need to play the game from both the GM and player perspective than to spend $50 just to get the core rulebook and still need dice and monster books to get rolling.  We all buy and play the full and real deal?  I bet a good many of us got started with one of the classic box sets from back in the TSR days.  I know I did.  Cause everything came in the box that I needed to play.  No one cared it was for levels 1 through 3 or that you could get more options in the AD&D books.  From the looks of it they are going after the classic basic sets.  Not these sets WotC has released in past years that were called basic or starter sets.  Those classic basic sets are typically well thought of from what I have seen.Again - think early basic sets, not what WotC released as a basic or starter set.  Lots of people entered this hobby through one of the classic basic sets.  People that weren't already playing the game.Instead of buying it and putting it up on the shelf - why not buy it and give it as a gift to a niece or nephew or neighborkid or Toys for Tots.  Paizo is going to provide people with a great tool for people new to the hobby - help get it into their hands.</blockquote>