| Mooncabbage |
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I have actually been thinking about this. I have my step-daughter and GF playing the BB, plus the Bash games and the GM Kit dungeon. My stepdaughter is 8 and she while she might eventually make it through the Hero's Handbook, there is no way she could ever read the PF book. Similarly my GF is vision impaired and has trouble reading for long periods of time, and is primarily interested in playing with her daughter, and is not dedicated to learning a huge set of complicated rules.
I am basically considering the BB to be "Pathfinder Basic", and it works fantastically like that. The rules are simple enough to understand, and there is plenty to do. The Monster Counters are an especially nice touch, they take up nowhere near as much room as minis to store, and are probably much cheaper to boot.
Unfortunately it's quite difficult for me to convert existing PF adventures to the BB, because the tone of most of those adventures is inappropriate. They're made with mature gamers in mind.
What I would like to see Paizo do, is not make the BB a one shot, but consider it perhaps a separate line that might lead into PF, rather than necessarily doing so. I would personally love to buy BB expansions, with new monster counters, adventures, map tiles, spells, items etc. Not new classes, because I think the 4 is just fine. Something like the Hero Quest expansions of old. Maybe even an "Intermediate Box" levels 6-10 somewhere down the line.
You only have to look at the number of parents in the comments here, singing the praises of the BB, to see there would be a market for simpler, more self contained products with a more child friendly tone.
I really hope to see something like that in the near future :D