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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mkill" data-source="post: 5438062" data-attributes="member: 55985">I live in a city where gamers are scarce, so I have to play whatever I find a group for. I can't afford to be picky or elitist in game systems. I found that my fun in a game session entirely depends on the people I play with anyway. Give me awesome gamers and it will be an awesome session, regardless of whether it's Rolemaster or just blank sheets of paper and improvisation.That said, I wish WotC would sell the D&D license to someone who cares. Seriously, they've pretty much stopped supporting it as an RPG, and they're just milking the IP for board games and novels. Screw that, it will fail, and I don't need my business school degree to see that. Their RPG line is dead, they're just looting the bodies for spare change.For me, the best thing that could happen now is that WotC hands over D&D to Paizo. Paizo publishes a revised, errata'd and polished 4th ed PHB1 with proper layout and artwork, resurrects the paper magazines, and converts their adventure series to dual 3rd/4th edition stats. After a lot of playtesting and customer feedback, they publish a converged 5th edition in 2015 to reunite the player base.Maybe that ain't gonna happen, but I can still dream.If things continue like this, however, the RPG market has no leader to drive it, and this is bad for all companies in it. D&D was always the entry product that brought in the new generation. If that is gone, RPGs will retreat even further into the niche that they are already in, and nobody could want that, regardless of the game system or edition that they prefer.Mhh, not sure what the D&D license is worth at the moment, it can't be much. TSR was worth $25m at the time. However, if they refuse to sell it, you'd need to raise $8bn for a leveraged buyout of Mattel...</blockquote>

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