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<blockquote data-quote="Bert the Ogre" data-source="post: 3278980" data-attributes="member: 47816"><p>Some good ideas here, but not necessarily "The Next Big Thing." I came into D&D during the Eric Holmes boxed set, and not long after TSR did one attempt to make D&D "Mainstream," with the Tom Moldvay/David Cook Boxed sets. Not that the game itself was mainstream, but the advertising copy was. Dad, Jr. and Sis as players, Mom as DM. Dice, pizza, sodas on the table, but no minis. Although game took off during that time, it never quite fit the "Family Game Night" game concept. </p><p></p><p>There are D&D type board games, but so far they are $70+ games. A bit of a hard sell to non-serious gamers. Magic: The Gathering had a tasty $6.95 sales tag for a basic deck, and $2.95 for the card packs. Sure MTG could get quite expensive, if you wanted it to, but it could also stay quite cheap, and could be played in just a few minutes to less than 30 minutes. Great for school kids with s short lunch period. (Please don't quote me on prices, I'm just going for a general feel.)</p><p></p><p>I myself would like to see a "Basic Set" that is similar in scope to the Moldvay/Cook sets, but with the minis and other odds and ends from the 3.x Basic Sets. The new Basic Set has too few monsters, spells, and other fluffy goodness that the M/C sets had. Nor did the "Orange Box." The 3.x Basic Sets are essentially "Demo Versions" of the big book sets, while M/C was a truly stand-alone product, with portability to the full set of rules and material.</p><p></p><p>Maybe that's "The Next Big Thing." D&D simple enough for Family Game Night, but with expandability to full nerdiness! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bert the Ogre, post: 3278980, member: 47816"] Some good ideas here, but not necessarily "The Next Big Thing." I came into D&D during the Eric Holmes boxed set, and not long after TSR did one attempt to make D&D "Mainstream," with the Tom Moldvay/David Cook Boxed sets. Not that the game itself was mainstream, but the advertising copy was. Dad, Jr. and Sis as players, Mom as DM. Dice, pizza, sodas on the table, but no minis. Although game took off during that time, it never quite fit the "Family Game Night" game concept. There are D&D type board games, but so far they are $70+ games. A bit of a hard sell to non-serious gamers. Magic: The Gathering had a tasty $6.95 sales tag for a basic deck, and $2.95 for the card packs. Sure MTG could get quite expensive, if you wanted it to, but it could also stay quite cheap, and could be played in just a few minutes to less than 30 minutes. Great for school kids with s short lunch period. (Please don't quote me on prices, I'm just going for a general feel.) I myself would like to see a "Basic Set" that is similar in scope to the Moldvay/Cook sets, but with the minis and other odds and ends from the 3.x Basic Sets. The new Basic Set has too few monsters, spells, and other fluffy goodness that the M/C sets had. Nor did the "Orange Box." The 3.x Basic Sets are essentially "Demo Versions" of the big book sets, while M/C was a truly stand-alone product, with portability to the full set of rules and material. Maybe that's "The Next Big Thing." D&D simple enough for Family Game Night, but with expandability to full nerdiness! :D [/QUOTE]
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