It may seem odd to sell a demo of a game but there are a lot of folks who don’t want to try a new game outside of the one they are playing. The Black Hack: Second Edition Boxed Set.Warhammer: Age of Sigmar - Soulbound Starter Set.Dungeons & Dragons 5E Starter Set/Essentials Kit.Elements like these also lure people that already have the core rulebook to pick up the starter set for completionist sake. The best ones include things that will stay useful should people buy into the full game like playing aids or extended adventures.
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It usually includes pre-made characters, a short adventure and rules brief. It’s a smaller, less expensive way to get into a tabletop RPG.
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Recently, the boxed set has been reborn as the starter kit. You can flip through a core book far easier than a boxed set to see if the game intrigues beyond back copy. Game makers moved to a big core book format, presumably to be a better fit for primary sales channels such as book stores.
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It seemed that, for a long, long time, the RPG boxed set was dead.