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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 6303742" data-attributes="member: 5143">So...wait.  If I buy a copy of this boxed set and none of us have played D&D before and it has an adventure, a bunch of precon characters and the rules to the game.  I then open it, read the rules and it says "Here's how to play, hand each of the players one of these characters, it'll tell them what their abilities are and what they can do.  Then, run them through this adventure."We sit down, I hand out the characters, we play to the end of the adventure, people roleplay their characters, they roll the included dice, everyone has fun.  How is that not an RPG?Then later, everyone says "Hey that was fun, oh...you can download more advanced rules from the internet which allow you to make up your own characters instead of using these premade characters.  Awesome.  And you can buy more adventures to play if you want.  Or our DM can just use the monsters from the boxed set and keep running us through adventures he makes up.</blockquote>