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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 5301993" data-attributes="member: 58197">Hmm.It may be just nostalgia value. For a lot of us, including me, the Red Box was our introduction to D&D--which is what it was intended to be. The Rules Cyclopedia was a much less newbie-friendly format (if only because the sheer page count intimidated people), and by that point the game was largely dominated by AD&D, so I doubt many people have that same association with the Cyclopedia. When I set out to buy myself a set of the Classic D&D rules on eBay a few years back, it didn't even occur to me to look for a Rules Cyclopedia--it was red, blue, cyan, and black boxes all the way.For all of the sound and fury about 4E's changes, the current crop of game designers at WotC have some distinct retro sensibilities. I think it's pretty clear many of them were Classic D&D fans. You can see echoes of it in a number of places. The tier system, for example, mirrors the Basic/Expert/Companion/Master progression. Fallcrest is fairly reminiscent of Threshold. Et cetera. It does not surprise me that the new Red Box is a deliberate imitation of the old one, right down to the same Larry Elmore box art.And yes, I'm gonna buy it. <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=":)" /></blockquote>