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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blackwarder" data-source="post: 5896745" data-attributes="member: 6688285">I'm not quite sure that's correct.When I was 10 my aunt bought me for my birth day this box game that had a cool image of a dragon hurtling toward am axe wielding man and I've been salivating on it for months. That was an intreductionary box for D&D, it was basic D&D written for kids but without being condensending and had everything you need to play either by yourself or with a group, and it was written in Hebrew.I quickly moved to the great book of D&D rules compendium, which was abut more challenging than the box set but very usefull and interesting, and played with that for a couple of years.From there I moved to AD&D 2e (again, using the Hebrew translation) and played that until 3e came out, over the years we switched from the Hebrew books to the English ones mainly because the company that translated the books went out of buissneses.Right before I joined the army, I had the fortune of playing with one of the guys who translated the game to Hebrew and between sessions we had some time to talk about how he went through translating the books, according to him it was like pulling out teeths, mainly due to the fact that they strived (and looking back greatly succeeded) to retain the evocative feel of the books without dumbing it down, another thing that they had in mind was that their target audiance were late teens and folks in their twenties and thirties and this being tiny Israel with a tiny population of roleplayers, where everyone knows everyone, if they did dumbed the books down they would have been ridiculed.My point is, talented translators don't need you to keep the language down for their benefits they are bright enough folks and can handle themselves.My other point is that it's perfectly fine to have products aimed at younger kids. Back when I was ten, I wouldn't have been able to make heads or tail from the game if it wasn't for the starter box, and that's a great thing to have, but the more advance books were aimed to an older audiance and that worked great too.I don't want to alienate the younger generation, heck my younger cousin is going to be ten when 5e will come out (and guess what I'm going to get him?<img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/glasses.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt="B-)" title="Glasses    B-)" data-shortname="B-)" />) but I have no Intrest in reading books aimed for ten years old, and to be frank I grew out of it when I was twelve.Warder</blockquote>

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