Is D&D 4E too "far out" to expand the market easily?

[erisred]

Oh really? Then rip out the Dragonborn and Tieflings! What are you waiting for? Don't let fluff stand in the way of a good game!

Yeah, make Dragonborn and Tiefilings NPC only, or just leave them totally out of your games. That's probably what I'm going to do when I start running 4e.

As for Eladrin being High Elves...heck, that's exactly how I'm explaining them! There are 3 sub-races of elf, Eladrin, Elf and Drow who have some large racial and very large cultural differences, but all three still primarily elven.

 

[Maggan]

See, that doesn't work even for 4, 5, 6, because the Death Star moves and is capable of destroying entire planets (which could translate to cities).

Haven't moving castles been an ingredient of fantasy for a long time? There's the thing in Thorbardin in Dragonlance, and although not a castle, The Hut of Baba Yaga moves around. I seem to remember a teleporting castle in some book or tale as well. Can't remember which. Still, I believe that it would be emminently possible to recreate D&D 1 to 6 in fantasy garbs.

Replace the tech with magic, and hey presto. "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" as Clarke put it.

/M

 

[Corjay]

Howle's Moving Castle. Besides its walking ability, it has a door that opens to far away locations with the twist of a wheel.

 

[ProfessorCirno]

You know, the whole Star Wars/fantasy thing just reminds me how far into nonesense people will go to try and prove a point.

I suppose you could technically claim Star Wars is fantasy if you replace everything in it with random sword and sorcery crap. You could also do that to anything in existence.

 

[Corjay]

Okay, so you don't agree. Cool.

You'll need a different approach guys.

 

[Doug McCrae]

You could completely re-skin the entirety of Star Wars to take place on a single fantasy planet with DnD level technology and have all the story elements remain intact.

Lucas already did that. It's called Willow.

 

[Doug McCrae]

D&D needs a TV show dedicated to new D&D stuff, and class builds and stuff.

And more ads and stuff with hot chicks playing D&D. Nothing sells stuff more then hot chicks.

Everything you guys want already exists.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwL-9xcMs_Y"]Dungeon Majesty.[/ame]

 

[Corjay]

That show would be cool if the host were less of the pasty type and lose the cape.

 

[Fifth Element]

That show would be cool if the host were less of the pasty type and lose the cape.

Yeah. That's the start of the problems, anyway.

 

[Corjay]

Yeah. That's the start of the problems, anyway.

What? You don't like the porno-bad backdrop LARPing? I think it's kind of creative for a no-budget show.