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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Phat Lute" data-source="post: 5444087" data-attributes="member: 84524">This Christmas, my friend wanted the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 3rd Edition Core Set.  I was skeptical about it, it seemed like there was a lot of gimmickry about it, and we already had tons of games.  But this was what he wanted and I was determined to give it to him.  As it sat on my table, unwrapped, it kept drawing me in to look at it and go over the content list, flip open the exterior box cover and look at the descriptions of what was inside.  Soon, I wanted to see everything inside the hefty box myself.  Obviously I wasn't going to open it, so I started looking up everything I could online.  Finally, the day came when we got to open presents.  There was so much stuff... quality stuff... in there, that we still wonder at some of it.Now, that's about $65 on Amazon, sure.  but when I compare it to Gamma World's almost $30 on Amazon... or the $40 I paid at the FLGS for GW, I can't help feeling kind of ripped off by it in comparison, with the much lighter box with fewer contents in proportion to price (and contents ranging from somewhat flimsier to considerably less high quality.)All that is preamble to this... if Wizards is going to continue down the boxed set and board game path, please let them learn a little from Fantasy Flight Games.And if we're really talking boxed sets and dream products, I'd like to see this:A set of new game tools (WFRP style) and expansion material for non-Essentials D&D, branded separately from Essentials D&D, thus distinguishing the two lines a la Advanced D&D and Basic.  What specifically?  I don't know.  Perhaps a new setting boxed set, with a basic rules booklet to make it a "complete" game (that is not a significant portion of the contents, I don't want a significant portion of what I paid for to be something I already own), complete with a set of dungeon tiles appropriate to the setting, power cards, event or item cards, dice, the setting manual and setting creature catalog, etc.  Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition: Ravenloft, for instance, "for use with Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition Player's Handbooks (AD&D)."If it's Essentialized, I've got no use for it.It seems extremely unlikely with the current development team.  But you did say "dream release."</blockquote>

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