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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Radiating Gnome" data-source="post: 285277" data-attributes="member: 150">Books for the less-than-motivatedThe first thing I can think of off the top of my head is a sort of PHB-Lite -- something that covers the basics and provides important tables, in something like 32 or maybe 64 softbounds pages.  My players didn't want to dump $20 (it's up to $25 now, right?) on a book right away, but they might have spent 5 or 7.50 on a handbook that covered the basics.  If you stick to mostly summaries and tables from the PHB you could make this work, but as much as this might help, I don't know if it makes publishing sense -- I mean, how much can you make on a book like that, and how much is it going to interfere with the discounted PHB sales.  The other thing that might help for groups that are much more interested in role playing is a setting-lite book -- skip the rules and just focus on least the players need to know about the world their characters live in.  Could you summarize FR in 32 pages?  I think it could be done, and that might be a useful tool, but I still don't know if players would actually buy it.  But there is another option -- a couple of my players are just not motivated to do much reading outside of the game.  They're there to have a good time, etc. Give them a handout and it doesn't get read. But they just might sit back and watch a 20 minute video about the game. That may be totally nuts to think about, but it would be interesting to see a sort of DVD product that would provide short 5-10 minute films on how to play each of the classes, some of the basics of the game, and then some material on the settings.  You'd want to sell it pretty cheap.  Maybe make it something other than a DVD, a CD-rom maybe, so they would have to watch it on their computer, that might reach more people.  But that might provide a way to get information about the game and the setting to the more uncommitted players in form they might actually digest.It needn't be live-action.  Characters could be represented by iconic minis.  The other graphics on the page could focus on the character sheet, some art, and maybe a few details from the PHB.-rg</blockquote>

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