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<blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 6783001" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya!And equally funny, they haven't produced any RPG book (themselves or through direct licensee's) that is for anything but FR. It's like saying &quot;Most people are buying cars that run on petrol, so the car industry must be doing something right&quot;... are people buying gas-based cars because they actually want to...or because that's pretty much all they can buy? If WotC stopped producing FR related RPG stuff for a year, would that &quot;poll&quot; change?I find it much more telling that, despite them only making FR based RPG stuff, there are more people playing in non-FR campaigns. It's like if 90% of the car industry were producing gas based cars, but the last 10% of the car market is selling to more than 50% of the people buying a new car.As for all the other comments I've gotten about my &quot;brand&quot;..er...comments... What my base feeling on the matter is, is that it seems like The Suits are trying to &quot;force&quot; everyone to accept what they are saying simply because that's what they are saying and doing. They aren't giving us what &quot;we&quot; want (me and my group at least), and instead giving us what &quot;they&quot; want to give us. I have no problem with lots of offshoot D&amp;D stuff...e.g., the whole &quot;branding&quot; thing, as a concept. But I want things to come about because of all the cool and diverse D&amp;D stuff out there. I don't want &quot;the company&quot; to try and dictate what &quot;is D&amp;D&quot;. Anyway, as I said, right now I don't really have a pegasus in the race...with what they are producing, we aren't buying. I'm letting them know what I want and don't want 'with my wallet', as many people say to do. I just wish that the other 50%+ of people playing D&amp;D not set in FR would stop buying the FR based stuff they are putting out. That's the only way to keep &quot;D&amp;D Brand&quot; as encompassing a plethora of unique, fun and interesting ideas...other wise we will have &quot;D&amp;D Brand&quot; as encompassing pretty much nothing but FR. In 10 years, we'll have &quot;Forgotten Realms: The Role Playing Game&quot;. Someone want to archive this prediction for future use? <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&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />^_^Paul L. Ming</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pming, post: 6783001, member: 45197"] Hiya! And equally funny, they haven't produced any RPG book (themselves or through direct licensee's) that is for anything [I]but[/I] FR. It's like saying "Most people are buying cars that run on petrol, so the car industry must be doing something right"... are people buying gas-based cars because they actually [I]want[/I] to...or because that's pretty much all they can buy? If WotC stopped producing FR related RPG stuff for a year, would that "poll" change? I find it much more telling that, despite them only making FR based RPG stuff, there are more people playing in non-FR campaigns. It's like if 90% of the car industry were producing gas based cars, but the last 10% of the car market is selling to more than 50% of the people buying a new car. As for all the other comments I've gotten about my "brand"..er...comments... What my base feeling on the matter is, is that it seems like The Suits are trying to "force" everyone to accept what they are saying simply because that's what they are saying and doing. They aren't giving us what "we" want (me and my group at least), and instead giving us what "they" want to give us. I have no problem with lots of offshoot D&D stuff...e.g., the whole "branding" thing, as a concept. But I want things to come about [I]because[/I] of all the cool and diverse D&D stuff out there. I don't want "the company" to try and dictate what "is D&D". Anyway, as I said, right now I don't really have a pegasus in the race...with what they are producing, we aren't buying. I'm letting them know what I want and don't want 'with my wallet', as many people say to do. I just wish that the other 50%+ of people playing D&D not set in FR would [I]stop buying the FR based stuff they are putting out[/I]. That's the only way to keep "D&D Brand" as encompassing a plethora of unique, fun and interesting ideas...other wise we will have "D&D Brand" as encompassing pretty much nothing but FR. In 10 years, we'll have "Forgotten Realms: The Role Playing Game". Someone want to archive this prediction for future use? ;) ^_^ Paul L. Ming [/QUOTE]

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