More D&D video games would be great, especially if done in the "updated isometric" style we see in the new Wasteland 2. I'm afraid Wizards might try to go for the FPS look of Skyrim/Fallout3, which IMO is great but not conducive to a recreation of the D&D experience (or the old classic games like the BG and IWD series).
D&D movies will never be anything other than a boondoggle. They might make nice Rifftrax fodder, but not much else.
See I dunno, I was quite interested by the concept of a Numenera game, but then I actually saw it and realized I'm quite happy having left isometric games behind after BG2. Not familiar with Wasteland 2 but a Google image search reaffirms I'm just not a fan of that style.
I wonder if it has something to do with the fact that I don't play D&D with minis. In a video game I don't want to view my character like I would pushing minis around a tabletop, I want to directly identify with them through 1st or 3rd person views. YYMV, of course.
D&D movies will never be anything other than a boondoggle. They might make nice Rifftrax fodder, but not much else.
Well yeah, if Sweetpea hangs onto the rights there's no doubt about that. But if Hasbro does manage to wrench them away in court and turn them over to Universal as they're hoping to do, you bet your sweet bippy I'll go see that movie. It could be quite good if they get a halfway decent fantasy epic script - my dream is something similar in tone to Guardians of the Galaxy, with wizards and dragons instead of blasters and spaceships. Even if it looks like an generic fantasy flick they slapped the D&D brand name on I'll still likely buy a ticket, just to send a message with my wallet (not that that worked when I saw Serenity four times in theaters, mind you
).
Not quite. Pathfinder may be descended from D&D, but there is a crucial difference - the money from sales of D&D go to WotC, the money from sales of Pathfinder go to Paizo. From a business perspective it doesn't matter that the new #1 was related to D&D in any way, it only matters that someone else is now getting the larger slice of the revenue pie, and that someone else came about directly as a result of the OGL.
True, but with D&D and Pathfinder sales both being minor compared to M:TG, and altogether negligible on the Hasbro scale, they're likely ignoring that crucial difference as it regards their plans for the D&D brand.
They don't care about 5E books sales, they care about self-identified D&D fans in aggregate, and most Pathfinder folks
do consider themselves D&D players. Are Paizo fans really going to mass boycott a D&D movie or video game because it'll benefit WotC?* Maybe on internet forums but in the real world I doubt it!
*Course they might boycott it because Sweetpea made it and it looks like $#!^, but that's just good sense...
