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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JVisgaitis" data-source="post: 3309986" data-attributes="member: 4177">Hey Upper_Krust! Round 2 I suppose... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />There is a huge part of the market that buys the core books and that is it certainly, but discounting existing players in a market where getting new players into the game is a monumental task is very nearsighted and foolish IMO.Why do you think it won't be a success? A lot of people here don't want a new edition next year, and no matter how much they kick and scream when its released they'll buy it. The marketing people at Wizards aren't stupid. Take a look at a starter set of miniatures for Dreamblade for example. On the box there is a sticker that says, "All New Game Design". You know why that's there? Because "All New" is the second best marketing term aside from "Free". Trust me, they know what they are doing and they know how to sell another edition.First off, I don't believe they'll call it 4th Edition. I'm banking on Dungeons & Dragons Revised. Secondly, I think it can do really well and certainly be as successful as 3rd Edition. But they can't just sit on their laurels and release the same game. I think they'll do what RyanD said they'll do and release a 3.5 on steroids and clean up a lot of the rules. They'll tie in a subscription format with great electronic support and use things like the Delve Format to make the game more miniature friendly. Just the phrase "Brand New Dungeons & Dragons" at your FLGS will be enough to sell tons of copies. That's what brings people in, something brand new they can start following from the very beginning.Who says it won't be different? I just doubt that it will be changed to the capacity that you are suggesting in that I think it will still be 3 core books with electronic support and support in other areas.Dude, you're starting to go off the deep end. I'd love to see the malice generated by that poll. People in here are annoyed because they think it'll be a strict boardgame and you have like 4% of the vote. Its a roleplaying game for crying out loud and its the father of pen & paper games. Trying to take pen & paper away from D&D is like trying to take a beard from a dwarf!Um, okay. How do you figure? All the people out there who know NOTHING about what a roleplaying game is are going to look at a very cool looking boardgame at Walmart that they can play with the whole family and think its inferior because its not like something they know nothing about? Sorry, try again.The Dungeons & Dragons Adventure Game doesn't sound negative to me. It implies adventure which is something everyone can relate to. Almost exactly like what you were talking about when you were defending your Dora idea. How is it negative?Looks like I'm getting bad as you with quoting line by line...  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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