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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5884855" data-attributes="member: 54877">Part presentation, part target audience--which are both highly related, of course. This also explains a peculiar facet of 4E: Arguably, since the release of the BECMI Rule Compendium, it is the single easiest version to buy and start having success with rapidly, assuming a bunch of beginners, with no outside help whatsoever. Some teenagers get the rules, one of them decides to DM, and off they go. Had the Essentials Red Box not been such a, err, misguided effort, and the first part of Essentials might have even beaten the RC on this front. There are just so many things that you can do with 4E that will more or less work, right out of the box. On the other hand, that presentation is so targeted at beginners that it does very little to help you once you get past that beginning bloom. If you already know this stuff, 4E can really sing. But it doesn't tell you how to make it sing, nor does it much show you. This is especially bad since some of the techniques to make it sing are not traditional in D&D.  Sometimes, it actively harms your development here, telling you things that were ok for a beginner, but not qualifying them as such--as if your English teacher had you write at 4th grade level all the way through high school to keep your modest success unthreatened.  Heck, as pemerton has said, they could have done worse than to include a few links to other games, and suggested people go read them for advice on how to play. The Burning Wheel Adventure Burner is even cheap!</blockquote>

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