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Will the Hobbit bring in new gamers?
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<blockquote data-quote="Olgar Shiverstone" data-source="post: 6031926" data-attributes="member: 5868"><p>The real opportunity I see for RPGs is not so much for Middle Earth games per se -- I think those will generally have limited life -- but the opportunity to use the movies and Middle Earth as a bridge to bring new gamers into the broader hobby.</p><p></p><p>Hardcore gamers I can see generally being lightly or not at all interested in another ME-based game. But imagine elementary school kids who were too young (or not born) for the release of LotR, but for whom the Hobbit trilogy will be their first exposure to a major fanatasy series that they will see on the big screen for the first time. They want more ... and there's a natural segway into RPGs if the right hooks are there.</p><p></p><p>The RPG industry failed to capitalize on the Harry Potter series (again, not so much to sell massive numebrs of HP RPGs, but to use a HP RPG as a gateway game to bigger RPG franchises), in large part due to JK Rowling's resistance. That same resistance is not there for the Tolkien properties -- can the RPG industry take the advantage?</p><p></p><p>Thus far, I don't think it is positioned to, or we'd bee seeing more gaming products announced with movie tie-ins, or at least timed to take advantage of synergy with the movie releases. LEGO is all over it; who not gaming?</p><p></p><p>Aside: [MENTION=363]ColonelHardisson[/MENTION] ... love the blog, BTW. Great analysis of the various MERP products. I now regret not having picked up the game back in the '80s (being a kid with little $, I bought D&D products but couldn't afford to expand into another game line). When is your Moria review going up? I've often considered a 4th Age Middle-Earth / D&D campaign built around the cleansing of Moria, but didn't want to have to create that mega-dungeon from scratch.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Olgar Shiverstone, post: 6031926, member: 5868"] The real opportunity I see for RPGs is not so much for Middle Earth games per se -- I think those will generally have limited life -- but the opportunity to use the movies and Middle Earth as a bridge to bring new gamers into the broader hobby. Hardcore gamers I can see generally being lightly or not at all interested in another ME-based game. But imagine elementary school kids who were too young (or not born) for the release of LotR, but for whom the Hobbit trilogy will be their first exposure to a major fanatasy series that they will see on the big screen for the first time. They want more ... and there's a natural segway into RPGs if the right hooks are there. The RPG industry failed to capitalize on the Harry Potter series (again, not so much to sell massive numebrs of HP RPGs, but to use a HP RPG as a gateway game to bigger RPG franchises), in large part due to JK Rowling's resistance. That same resistance is not there for the Tolkien properties -- can the RPG industry take the advantage? Thus far, I don't think it is positioned to, or we'd bee seeing more gaming products announced with movie tie-ins, or at least timed to take advantage of synergy with the movie releases. LEGO is all over it; who not gaming? Aside: [MENTION=363]ColonelHardisson[/MENTION] ... love the blog, BTW. Great analysis of the various MERP products. I now regret not having picked up the game back in the '80s (being a kid with little $, I bought D&D products but couldn't afford to expand into another game line). When is your Moria review going up? I've often considered a 4th Age Middle-Earth / D&D campaign built around the cleansing of Moria, but didn't want to have to create that mega-dungeon from scratch. [/QUOTE]
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