Not sure if this is where a thread like this should go, but sicne it includes and is based on the games direction it is placed here, and someone can move it if it belongs better somewhere else.
D&D starter out as an adaption a group of miniature wargames players took to playing a different way called Chainmail.
Then it became D&D when that adaptation was changed to give more control over your own "piece" in the game to decide what it did and used during play, and thus was born the first modern style RPG.
Through many years it changed still focused on that concept of playing one "piece" in the game rather than be an armchair general which has led to MANY other RPGs being created from this concept.
Now why would I suggest that it is to become a board game?
Well I could have said it returned to a miniature wargame, but DDM didn't work too well, and there is some heavy competition to break out a new miniature wargame and HeroScape was canceled meaning that direction has already been decided to have its door closed.
D&D based board games are coming out, and the newest ruleset play heavily into that line of game play to make them fit well to make board games.
While there are still books, for now, being made to play a TTRPG, the chance D&D could become a series of board games isn't that far off.
D&D might continue as an online VTTRPG, but there is a good possibility and signs that board games will take over the physical product version of the D&D, and I hate this word, "brand".
I don't think I would need to supply any figures, and hope many wouldn't disagree with my assumption that more people are willing to play a board game than a traditional RPG that requires the level of rulebooks as D&D does.
Board games contain the entire game in one box, for one price. Why wouldn't D&D go this route? New product can be made, either new games or expansions, that people would continue to buy.
Is it really that far fetched, and could you likewise see physical product becoming board games and the D&D RPG moving to a VTTRPG?
If not, why? (from personal and a business standpoint.)
NOTE: There is no GENERAL Dungeons and Dragons "prefix" without being forced into an edition or straight jacketed into some other specific thing including WotC, but this is NOT about an particular edition NOR is it solely about WotC. This thread is about D&D only though, not other RPGs. Thank you.
D&D starter out as an adaption a group of miniature wargames players took to playing a different way called Chainmail.
Then it became D&D when that adaptation was changed to give more control over your own "piece" in the game to decide what it did and used during play, and thus was born the first modern style RPG.
Through many years it changed still focused on that concept of playing one "piece" in the game rather than be an armchair general which has led to MANY other RPGs being created from this concept.
Now why would I suggest that it is to become a board game?
Well I could have said it returned to a miniature wargame, but DDM didn't work too well, and there is some heavy competition to break out a new miniature wargame and HeroScape was canceled meaning that direction has already been decided to have its door closed.
D&D based board games are coming out, and the newest ruleset play heavily into that line of game play to make them fit well to make board games.
While there are still books, for now, being made to play a TTRPG, the chance D&D could become a series of board games isn't that far off.
D&D might continue as an online VTTRPG, but there is a good possibility and signs that board games will take over the physical product version of the D&D, and I hate this word, "brand".
I don't think I would need to supply any figures, and hope many wouldn't disagree with my assumption that more people are willing to play a board game than a traditional RPG that requires the level of rulebooks as D&D does.
Board games contain the entire game in one box, for one price. Why wouldn't D&D go this route? New product can be made, either new games or expansions, that people would continue to buy.
Is it really that far fetched, and could you likewise see physical product becoming board games and the D&D RPG moving to a VTTRPG?
If not, why? (from personal and a business standpoint.)
NOTE: There is no GENERAL Dungeons and Dragons "prefix" without being forced into an edition or straight jacketed into some other specific thing including WotC, but this is NOT about an particular edition NOR is it solely about WotC. This thread is about D&D only though, not other RPGs. Thank you.
