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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olgar Shiverstone" data-source="post: 1032638" data-attributes="member: 5868">I'm looking forward to this.  I think there's room for a product that will appeal to a slightly different/younger audience that has all the elements needed to play in one package, without the $30+ price tag of the core books or the significantly greater investment in time.  Picking up D&D canbe pretty intimidating for a newcomer, given that the core rules are almost 1000 pages of info.  Sure, no one needs to know all that -- but a newcomer likely doesn't know that, either.I'm guessing this product (isn't it the "D&D First Challenge" product?) will be something like the D&D Adventure Game for 3E, but probably with the pre-painted minis instead of counters.  For the price, I thought the D&DAG was a pretty good effort.I do agree with Talon, though, that D&D as a whole could use some more promotion.  With the updated Core Rulebooks, minis game, the new Dragonlance CS (readers of DL novels are a much larger market than DL RPGers), and two new D&D computer games due out this fall (another huge market), it seems like this would be a great time to push the advertising and pick up more crossover customers.  But with the boardgame and the intro set, maybe we're about so see that ...</blockquote>