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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arnwyn" data-source="post: 401776" data-attributes="member: 7701">But I would suspect WotC wouldn't. If they were to put resources towards promoting the game, it would be D&D and not d20.What baffles me, actually, is why D&D game info is not in the back of the WotC novels. For the love of pete, you'd think that would be a ready market. Now, I'm pretty sure WotC did some market research there, but I'm not privy to the results. But I submit that a lot of WotC novel readers (e.g. those that read the Drizzt novels) are not D&D players. [I know a bunch of current and previous co-workers who fit that bill, but that is not necessarily indicative of the market as a whole.]By putting game statistics of that novel (NPCs, main character stats, magic items, spells, new feats) in the back of the novel, and then directing the reader to the PHB (with a little picture of the PHB's cover), I would suspect that many novel readers would at least have their interest piqued. The info in the back of the novels would make it easy for them to know what to get, as well as give them "instant information" about the game (and especially about the book that they just finished enjoying).It wouldn't have to be a lot - a bunch of NPC and main character stats, a new spell, a new magic item, and maybe a new feat - possibly 4 novel-pages worth. Readers would be intrigued at actual "further info" at the characters they really liked from the novel, and maybe that interest would be translated into a PHB sale.[I remember that D&D stats were in the older Dragonlance novel "Second Generation". I wonder how that translated to sales of game products? My guess is that TSR wasn't tracking such statistics at the time.]</blockquote>

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