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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6043269" data-attributes="member: 7006">Two things...1) The number of players who have no concept of what D&amp;D or RPGs are (and have no friends in the gaming group to clue them in on what they actually should or need to buy) is exceedingly small.&nbsp; 99% of all &quot;new&quot; players are going to be joining a game that includes at least one experienced player... and that player will tell him he doesn't need to drop $100 on all 3 books.&nbsp; But rather, only $30 on the Player's Handbook (if the player even so chose).&nbsp; But its also quite possible that the experienced one will tell the player to not even buy any books yet, until he discovers whether he likes the game.&nbsp; Because ther will be plenty of other PHBs around the table the &quot;new&quot; player can look at when he needs to.2)&nbsp; Your suggestion is actually even WORSE for the &quot;new&quot; player... because rather than just dropping $30 on a PHB... they have to drop $50 on a combined book.&nbsp; So its the combined book that is giving the player much more useless information which they would never use, and would be a waste of money to them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 6043269, member: 7006"] Two things... 1) The number of players who have no concept of what D&D or RPGs are (and have no friends in the gaming group to clue them in on what they actually should or need to buy) is exceedingly small. 99% of all "new" players are going to be joining a game that includes at least one experienced player... and that player will tell him he doesn't need to drop $100 on all 3 books. But rather, only $30 on the Player's Handbook (if the player even so chose). But its also quite possible that the experienced one will tell the player to not even buy any books yet, until he discovers whether he likes the game. Because ther will be plenty of other PHBs around the table the "new" player can look at when he needs to. 2) Your suggestion is actually even WORSE for the "new" player... because rather than just dropping $30 on a PHB... they have to drop $50 on a combined book. So its the combined book that is giving the player much more useless information which they would never use, and would be a waste of money to them. [/QUOTE]

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