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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark CMG" data-source="post: 6461105" data-attributes="member: 10479">I think when WotC was doing that early market research, they saw something that they may have interpreted wrong, or perhaps just misunderstood.  Ryan Dancey has been quoted as saying that D&D is twenty minutes of fun packed into four hours.  I think researchers examining gameplay with an objective eye from the outside simply don't realize that, generally speaking, RPGs are four hours of fun in four hours for those who are playing (except when it isn't <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ).  So, for people watching an RPG being played, or objectively examining it from the outside, there would seem to be only twenty minutes of highlights.Let's face it, that's true of just about anything, and we realize it, otherwise human beings would never have learned to summarize.  From another RPG-related angle, it's also why "Let me tell you about my character" is such a dreaded phrase, in that the person who plays the character thinks much more of that story is highlights than the person learning of it when cornered.So, once you add in the intro and the credits, and a few panels of summary text to bridge some gaps, and if you make sure there is some voice over strengthening the bridges, I think a half hour show of an RPG can be made from a well run four hour game, and I'd watch the first one and maybe more if it was well produced post-game.</blockquote>

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