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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ajanders" data-source="post: 276303" data-attributes="member: 3271">WotC/D20 advertisingI suspect WOTC will wait until D20 Modern to do a lot of mainstream advertising.D&D is a sword and sorcery genre game.  Sword and sorcery is a very small part of common culture: many people can't identify with Regdar the fighter, Elminster, or Drizzt.But D20 modern allows people to play whole new sorts of games: some of which are hugely popular compared with sword and sorcery fantasy.You can do mysteries:start with the Hardy Boys, continue on with Phillip Marlowe, and round out with Susan Grafton's alphabet mystery series.You can do adventure/suspense: Indiana Jones, Tom Clancy, James Bond, Jackie Chan, or John Grisham.You can do low-supernatural horror: Cujo, Silence of the Lambs, or The Bone Collector.Even the new pulps play well with D20: like Mack Bolan and the Stony Man Group.I suspect the mainstream is far more interested in being James Bond, Perry Mason, and Jack Ryan, than Conan the Barbarian, so that's the kind of thing that needs to go to mainstream publications.</blockquote>