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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 6171387" data-attributes="member: 52734">Personally, I think they should approach it in a manner that board games are sold.  If you're selling say, Monopoly, you don't target it to sell a copy to every person who's going to play.  You sell it with the idea it's going to be played by a group.  If you make add-ons, make it with the intention it will be sold to the group, not one person.  At the same time, I really think that RPG companies have gotten into the bad habit of thinking that if they sell you a copy of Monopoly, they need to make dozens of add-ons (Monopoly: Skyscrapers; Monopoly Token Pack MCXI - Cat, Hamsterball, and Monkey;  Monopoly: Chance of a Lifetime;  Monopoly: Train Tycoon; Monopoly: Prison Break, etc.) rather than try to get you interested in say, Clue.  Go back to the days of having D&D, Star Frontiers, Boot Hill, Top Secret, Gamma World, Alternity and half a dozen RPGs out in field rather than sink all their eggs in one RPG where you have to make product for it every flipping month or go under.  Y'know, diversify.  I actually think that's one thing that has hurt D&D - it has come to a point where if something new (or two) isn't coming out every month for it, it's "dead".  That's too much pressure.  I mean, go back and look at the release schedule of AD&D (1E) in it's heyday.  I seem to recall new rulebooks coming out like once every couple of years, and modules not much faster.And in the flavor you can have Simpsons Monopoly, Tron Monopoly and whatnot, you keep the same base game but flavor your version for different tastes.  Think of doing campaign worlds - FR, Dark Sun, etc.  The big thing is, don't keep trying to support that campaign world.  Do it, then move on to the next flavor of the month.Finally, I think WotC should possibly look at having different versions of D&D - in the way you have City Monopoly, Millionaire Monopoly, Boardwalk and the like.  Though these games can significantly change the look and feel of the game, they all have a similiar core - and they don't have to be supported as more than one-off variants.  So, maybe we have some base D&D game (perhaps looking a lot like BECMI D&D), an Advanced version that models 1E & 2E, an Options D&D (mimicking 3E) and some option that mimics 4E (sorry, can't think of some witty name at the moment).  Or just reprint the four (?) versions and round-robin products for them.</blockquote>

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