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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Danzauker" data-source="post: 5078529" data-attributes="member: 1929">Problem is that Basic and Advanced catered to the same market. They were not selling a sci-fi RPG and a fantasy RPG. They were selling two versions of the same game. Economy says that printing, stocking, advertising, selling ONE product makes for lesser costs than TWO products, so it's more profitable.Plus, you're saying that Basic and Advanced were compatible. It's not what the guys at TSR said. It was also printed on the covers of modules and stated in the manuals themselves.I, personally, owned every BECMI box (plus lots of other stuff from the Basic line) but didn't buy any 1e or 2e rulebook, though I was forced to play it as a player, until near the end of 2e (and that mostly just in order to understand the various settings such as Dark Sun and Planescape in deep), because I liked BECMI a lot more.So, I think understand the marketing move of making a "teaser" Red Box. It's intended to be played once or twice by a bunch of kids, before the say: "ok, we're sold, let's buy the real thing" and then be put on a shelf until they want to teach some more friends how to play.I think the adventures contained will be somethink like "level zeroes" of videogames, where you're gradually learning the controls and options of the gme by playing a walkthrough.</blockquote>