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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Upper_Krust" data-source="post: 3293018" data-attributes="member: 326">Hi Bert! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Totally agree. Visual (to grab their attention), Simple (to pick up), Quick (to setup and play within an hour or so) and Collectible (to keep them coming back for more). Thats the key to winning new gamers, keeping old ones and expanding the hobby. I think D&D is far too daunting for newbies. Also, D&D is not easily demonstratable.We have a Games Workshop store in the city, whenever I go in there are always staff and/or customers playing the game. If people come into the store the staff are only too happy to give them a demo of any of the games and it only takes 5 minutes or so.Same thing at my friends comics/game store. Except the people play Magic the Gathering there. Its quick, simple and easy to have a game. Also take into account that you really need 3 books even to start playing D&D.So an 'all-in-one' $39.95 start up basic set would be an attractive prospect.  The basic set is too basic. I think you could take the base format of the Board Game, use pre-painted miniatures and create colour-coded (easily identifiable) boxed sets each of which corresponds to two themes: one indoor, one outdoor. So if you have 4 reversible tiles. One face would be for an outdoor section and one would be for an indoor section.So it would be as simple as:#1 (Red): Isle of Dread (Island + Fire-based Dungeon)...featuring Lizardfolk, Dinosaurs and a Dragon (of course)#2 (Blue): Secrets of Saltmarsh (Island + Pirate Ship)...featuring Ghost Pirates (like that won't sell like hot cakes this summer!)#3 (Green): The Ghost Tower (Forest + Wizard's Tower)...featuring Orcs#4 (Black): Tomb of Horrors (Ruins + Tomb)...featuring Undead#5 (White): The Great Glacier (Ice Mountains + Citadel)...featuring (Ice) Gnolls#6 (Yellow): Desert of Desolation (Desert + Pyramid)...featuring Scorpionfolks#7 (Gray): Mines of Bloodstone (Mountains + Mines)...featuring Duergars and maybe a Balrog...I mean Balor.#8 (Purple): Vault of the Drow (Caverns + Undercity)...featuring Drow, obviously. #9 (Brown): The Sinister Swamp (Swamp + Village)...featuring Bullywugs#10 (Pink): Forgotten Temple (Jungle + Temple)...featuring Yuan-TiThen each could have an expansion box with 5 new tiles (so that they would combine with the initial 4 tiles for a larger 3 x 3 format should you so wish).Thats barely even the tip of the iceberg for my brainstorming but I have to keep the best ideas for myself incase some bigwig in the gaming industry gives me an email.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> But imagine if the SRD was as simple as the Board Game rules.</blockquote>

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