Recent content by Bravesteel25

I appreciate your walk back. As an English American Muslim, I get put into a lot of different buckets just because of who I am, so I appreciate that you can tell I'm not here to chant "USA, USA, USA," about everything. Perhaps I should modify my statement and say that I would have liked to...

Of course, it definitely takes a large committment of capital to enter a new market. The nice thing in the instance of MENA is that there is little to no presence of the tabletop industry from a local perspective, a double-edged sword if you will. I don't even think they would need to localize...

Not that I know of, no. Does it skew that much? That would be interesting! I've always wondered why gaming companies ignore North Africa and the Middle East as there is a large untapped market there. Very good point. The conversion rate is going to make the ROI calculation a lot different...

Totally valid if that's the stated goal. You aren't going to get an argument out of me on that.

I appreciate that you feel that way, but the market data shows that the majority of D&D's audience (the fans in "Fan Expo") is in North America. Forbes noted that 85% of D&D Beyond's registed userbase is in North America, I don't think that's a completely inconsequential statistic. I think...

I don't particularly mean that they shouldn't do events outside America. I'm just surprised that something heralded as a big "D&D Fan Expo" isn't even in the country that hosts PAX, GenCon, and Gary Con. I never meant to make it come across that it was a zero-sum situation, I'm just surprised...

Agreed. Which, to my point, means it would make more sense to maximize such an Expo where a greater number of your fans exist. But maybe there is more to it that my MBA brain isn't seeing, I'm certainly capable of missing plenty of obvious factors!

Maybe so, but who is it going to draw that isn't already into the brand? It's marketing sure, but I don't see it as a something that would bring in throngs of the uninitiated.

No offense to my UK cousins, but I'm surprised it's not over here anyway. Not that it would make it any easier for me to attend. It would probably be on the East or West coasts.

I cut my entire physical library when I moved from Kansas to Texas. If I had kept them, along with my board games, I would have had to make multiple trips back (around 12 hours) just to get everything and it just wasn't worth it once I realized that I hadn't cracked open most of them more than...

I think it's because your mentors are confusing systematic racism with bigotry. Systematic racism, to me, definitely requires some sort of power imbalance. On a side note, I think it's good that we can all identify areas where we and others around us are being bigotted.

This is exactly how I feel about art in RPGs. Perfectly said, djotaku.

At worst case you can also use one of the numerous dice rollers on the web.

I have never met another EN Worlder. I was always the sole guy in my group scrolling the internet D&D forums.

But they could do a Campaign for D&D and a Campaign for DH if losing audiences was such a concern. I don't think it's as big of a danger as people thing it is, not to mention some of those costs for the DH campaign could be considered marketing for the publishing side of the house.