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OK, you missed the basic point I was making in my facetious reply. People will buy things that are losing money. Period. There are a lot of reasons. Something can have inherent value while still generating a loss, and there are too many examples of how a property can be made better than ever...

Its possible that Hasbro will be paid revenue from the D&D brand no matter how well the property does on an electronic platform. Its possible that Hasbro will be paid if the game meets a certain profit level. Its possible Hasbro will not be paid at all for income generated from the D&D brand...

Uh, yeah, spare me the condescension, please. The handling of Greyhawk has made perfect sense, when one accounted for the motivation of the personalities involved. This time its not a personality issue, its a business decision, which is why it is so strange. And while the handling of Greyhawk...

Sure Hasbro made money from the transaction...that was part of the deal itself. Do I think Hasbro makes money from each game Atari/Infogrames makes? No, I don't. I don't think Hasbro makes a dime. Money has already changed hands for those rights. You think Infogrames will pay the Hasbro...

This is interesting, if it is true. I am certain WotC (and Hasbro) identify FR as part of their base value. If this is true, then WotC will have to continue to publish FR, or forfeit a significant chunk of value. Can anyone verify this? It would substantially alter the outlook (at least for...

Well, first Infogrames has all rights for the forseeable future for interactive and electronic D&D. This is one of the main points of this thread. For film or TV, its a different story. On this issue, I'd note: 1) the first D&D movie was not so impressive (second movie is an unknown right...

Monte I don't know about...I could definitely see it, given the ambitions expressed in the amount of material he has created. Valterra...it didn't sound that way. I probably shouldn't have brought him up though...something of a special case. SKReyn would probably be most representative. It...

Yeah, his comments are definitely worth reading for the perspective they confer. But bear in mind: my speculation is that D&D is going on the block in the near future or will be shut down, not that 4E is imminent.

Hmmm, that is a believable flip side, but that would have to function under the concept of a commodity I would think. That is, a sustained demand and perception (or reality) of diminished supply, leading to an increase in demand. The question then becomes, under such a scenario, would these...

I can see where you are coming from, but I am not so sure. If a solid publisher has a proven track record at sufficient consistent income levels, and if they can convince a bank that they can run the biggest name in the industry/genre at a consistent profit, it could happen. But yeah, unlikely...

;) I suppose so. Dunno really. That unavoidably shades into which designers do you prefer, and becomes a matter of opinion. Personally, though I am an American, I like that Brit influence, you've got Warhammer, Mongoose with Conan and the like, and things in that direction. Or maybe some...

Who do I want? Well, I can think of a couple that I wouldn't mind, but I don't think thats the pertinent question. The pertinent question is: who is capable of and willing to shell out 8 figures for it? That is a tiny group. Even when you factor some kind of designer/developer/author...

As hilarious as the "Tell us what you like and don't like about 4e" thread is, I have been thinking about all of the 4E speculation and setting oddness...here's my suspicion: Hasbro/Wizards has no concrete plans on releasing 4th Ed, BUT I don't think thats the good news that many suppose...

mind bondage Yes!! We should cast "Mind Bondage" of Eric Mona, and make him buy us $600 ( <- adjusted for inflation) worth of Dungeons and Dragons manuals...(and while he's at it, tell us his new project)

weapons vs AC Greetings Col, I have some questions about the weapon details on pages 26-27 of 1E Unearthed Arcana. For the length listing, does that include the hilt/grip? Especially the Two-Handed Sword....its listed at 6'. If that is 6' of blade, that strikes me as monstrously unwieldy...

Just a clarification...this isn't entirely accurate. The first stats for Drizzt appeared in FR 5: The Savage Frontier, page 57. The stat entries included only ability scores of 15 or higher. Drizzt had none. Not one. Unlike Wulfgar (3), or Bruenor (2). Here is his entry: Drizzt Do-Urden...

Spiked armor Awesome! :lol: On spiked armor... Examine some historical scale armor if you can. Generally you will see that the lower edge of each "scale" is curved, and frequently the scale is bevelled so that the lower edge rests on the scales beneath, lifting the rest of the scale away...

Well, I guess we have a fundamental difference of opinion here. What you say the Mongols left behind is, when I read it, equal to nothing. Certainly, during their century or so of power they were impressive, but not moreso than any other imperial power. And other imperial powers did create...

Hmm. I really have to completely disagree with this. The simple advent of the gunpowder empires would render the tactics of the Mongols obsolete. Especially the ability of the Seljuk Turk armies to move while firing (one rank fires, the rank behind reloads, the rank behind moves forward to...

A new trend...? Not sure if this should be a different topic... The questions you ask here raise an issue I saw in-game yesterday... Our party was in a combat that included an enemy warrior/rogue type and a mage. The DM states the mage is moving to a position such that 2 characters are in a...