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<blockquote data-quote="Corpsetaker" data-source="post: 7688222" data-attributes="member: 6776548"><p>It's not madness and it's not going into the doghouse. </p><p></p><p>That is the nature of this industry and it's D&D that began it and exposed many different people through many years. Multiple settings still make wizards money it's just how you go about doing it. Nobody says you have to go the 2nd edition route. We get a lot of one extreme to the next without exploring the middle. </p><p></p><p>Multiple settings have not much to with cost because I believe Wizards is smart enough to pull it off. The problem is gaining brand identity. At this moment there is really no difference between D&D, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Conan, and many of the other fantasy genres. You can't sell "D&D" to the public without giving it a face or multiple faces. Just like "Marvel" couldn't just sell "Marvel" to the populace, you have to pull specific things from "Marvel" in order to grab peoples attention and those things were Spider-Man, Iron Man, Captain America, etc.... </p><p></p><p>To make it easier for them to gain brand identity they needed to look at the setting that is the most popular and that is Forgotten Realms. It does have an iconic character they could build off of and go from there. Wizards have already said they are thinking long term and they have their sights on something bigger than the RPG down the road. It's not that multiple settings will cause them to lose money, it's that they think there is something down the road that will make them lots more money.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Corpsetaker, post: 7688222, member: 6776548"] It's not madness and it's not going into the doghouse. That is the nature of this industry and it's D&D that began it and exposed many different people through many years. Multiple settings still make wizards money it's just how you go about doing it. Nobody says you have to go the 2nd edition route. We get a lot of one extreme to the next without exploring the middle. Multiple settings have not much to with cost because I believe Wizards is smart enough to pull it off. The problem is gaining brand identity. At this moment there is really no difference between D&D, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Conan, and many of the other fantasy genres. You can't sell "D&D" to the public without giving it a face or multiple faces. Just like "Marvel" couldn't just sell "Marvel" to the populace, you have to pull specific things from "Marvel" in order to grab peoples attention and those things were Spider-Man, Iron Man, Captain America, etc.... To make it easier for them to gain brand identity they needed to look at the setting that is the most popular and that is Forgotten Realms. It does have an iconic character they could build off of and go from there. Wizards have already said they are thinking long term and they have their sights on something bigger than the RPG down the road. It's not that multiple settings will cause them to lose money, it's that they think there is something down the road that will make them lots more money. [/QUOTE]
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