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<blockquote data-quote="Jolly_Blackburn" data-source="post: 5992078" data-attributes="member: 44101">well... that's the popular internet version anyway. 2 parts truth. 1 part speculation.&nbsp;But it's not important enough for me to delve into those waters. Water under the bridge. I'll simply point out that the DVD situation was pointed out to TSR several times before it was released. Those warnings were ignored for whatever reason by their lawyers.Our license was for six years I believe -- we knew going in there was an expiry date. For us (the designers) the game was always serious/gritty. The humor was there of course -- but we played HM like many of our fans did -- like your typical AD&amp;D campaign.So HM New Edition didn't require any much of a mindset change. We simply stripped away some of the 'silly' that was forced on the game began rebuilding. Again I don't mind some folks think it's a joke game. Our core audience 'gets it' and they've been pretty good about spreading the word. We're content to win over new players -- one at time if need be. <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=";)" />And no -- not surprised at all some people still confuse HM New Edition with HM 4e. I'm cool with it. Happy to answer questions for those interested enough to learn more. But I don't have any particular problem with anyone who isn't interested either. Just how it goes.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jolly_Blackburn, post: 5992078, member: 44101"] well... that's the popular internet version anyway. 2 parts truth. 1 part speculation. But it's not important enough for me to delve into those waters. Water under the bridge. I'll simply point out that the DVD situation was pointed out to TSR several times before it was released. Those warnings were ignored for whatever reason by their lawyers. Our license was for six years I believe -- we knew going in there was an expiry date. For us (the designers) the game was always serious/gritty. The humor was there of course -- but we played HM like many of our fans did -- like your typical AD&D campaign. So HM New Edition didn't require any much of a mindset change. We simply stripped away some of the 'silly' that was forced on the game began rebuilding. Again I don't mind some folks think it's a joke game. Our core audience 'gets it' and they've been pretty good about spreading the word. We're content to win over new players -- one at time if need be. ;) And no -- not surprised at all some people still confuse HM New Edition with HM 4e. I'm cool with it. Happy to answer questions for those interested enough to learn more. But I don't have any particular problem with anyone who isn't interested either. Just how it goes. [/QUOTE]

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