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<blockquote data-quote="Count_Zero" data-source="post: 8027383" data-attributes="member: 40164"><p>The thing is, there are Japanese Tabletop RPGs - which scratch some of the same itches as D&D, and which also scratch some of the itches that I think he is trying to scratch with his hypothetical 5E OA.</p><p></p><p>To stop pulling punches here - [USER=6802378]@LuisCarlos17f[/USER], what it sounds like you're describing is a poor man's <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/111713/Tenra-Bansho-Zero-Heaven-and-Earth-Edition" target="_blank">Tenra Bansho Zero</a>. The game already exists in Japan, it's being published by someone else, and it's selling better in Japan than D&D does. It's also using a game system that is very different from D&D - arguably one that's kinda different than a lot of other tabletop systems in the West in general, due to doing a percentile dice system using D6s.</p><p></p><p>If WotC wants to create the D&D setting book that will strike the pocketbooks of the Japanese gaming market, it's not making something like Tenra Bansho Zero, it's going to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_SNE" target="_blank">Group SNE</a>, saying "We know TSR messed things up with you under Lorraine Williams, we'd like to get back together, please put out an anniversary edition of Lodoss for 5th Edition - you can publish it in Japan with the 5th Edition Trade Dress, and we will publish an English translated release in the US."</p><p></p><p>This isn't to say US TRPGs don't do well in Japan - last I heard the highest-selling TRPG in Japan right now is Call of Cthulhu, but D&D is at a tremendous disadvantage.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: One more thing - as far the Chinese market goes -If they're going to sell their book in China, they'll have to go through Chinese censors. Chinese government censors can be somewhat capricious and unpredictable at the best of times (like the problems <em>Ghostbusters: Answer The Call</em> ran into with trying to retool the plot and effects at great time and expense for Chinese censors only to get denied a release anyway) - and with the Security Rules that were passed just this week, it is very much not the best of times.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Count_Zero, post: 8027383, member: 40164"] The thing is, there are Japanese Tabletop RPGs - which scratch some of the same itches as D&D, and which also scratch some of the itches that I think he is trying to scratch with his hypothetical 5E OA. To stop pulling punches here - [USER=6802378]@LuisCarlos17f[/USER], what it sounds like you're describing is a poor man's [URL='https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/111713/Tenra-Bansho-Zero-Heaven-and-Earth-Edition']Tenra Bansho Zero[/URL]. The game already exists in Japan, it's being published by someone else, and it's selling better in Japan than D&D does. It's also using a game system that is very different from D&D - arguably one that's kinda different than a lot of other tabletop systems in the West in general, due to doing a percentile dice system using D6s. If WotC wants to create the D&D setting book that will strike the pocketbooks of the Japanese gaming market, it's not making something like Tenra Bansho Zero, it's going to [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_SNE']Group SNE[/URL], saying "We know TSR messed things up with you under Lorraine Williams, we'd like to get back together, please put out an anniversary edition of Lodoss for 5th Edition - you can publish it in Japan with the 5th Edition Trade Dress, and we will publish an English translated release in the US." This isn't to say US TRPGs don't do well in Japan - last I heard the highest-selling TRPG in Japan right now is Call of Cthulhu, but D&D is at a tremendous disadvantage. EDIT: One more thing - as far the Chinese market goes -If they're going to sell their book in China, they'll have to go through Chinese censors. Chinese government censors can be somewhat capricious and unpredictable at the best of times (like the problems [I]Ghostbusters: Answer The Call[/I] ran into with trying to retool the plot and effects at great time and expense for Chinese censors only to get denied a release anyway) - and with the Security Rules that were passed just this week, it is very much not the best of times. [/QUOTE]
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