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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Talaeden_Denthiir" data-source="post: 3729374" data-attributes="member: 18257">D&D has endured many a trial over the years and keeps on getting better.  It is an Iconic.  A standard by which others are measured.  Want to compare D&D to WoW? Fine.  Yet one shouldn't measure D&D to WoW.  One should measure WoW to D&D.  In effect, if WoW is a least partly based of D&D (and it is), then let D&D set the standard, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND.  Give the Pen and Paper D&D something that no other MMORPG can duplicate besides  the Roleplaying aspect.  Something in the Mechanics.  How?  I don't have all the answers, but here's an example.   I'm sure we've all done this before.  We've all read a fantasy book or watched a fantasy movie and thought, 'it would be SO awesome to play that character in a game.  Well, D&D comes along and we do, err, sort of.  We might play a Barabarian and pretend to be Conan, or a Wizard and try to be Gandalf, or a Ranger and try to be Robin Hood; but we aren't really playing the actual character...   So why don't we?  WotC, why don't we?  What I'd like is a way for us all, through the MECHANICS of D&D make those Iconic characters.  Why not have an example of each class be someone from said books and movies and even comics (barring copyright infrinement, of course)?  WotC give us the stats and brief backround of Lancelot the Paladin, Conan the Barbarian (before he multiclassed), and Robin Hood the Ranger.  Also give us Fantasy favorites from literature like Elric of Melibone, and the Multiclassed Drizzt Do'Urden.  In effect, make one member of each class in the PH and each Prestige class in the DMG Iconic from these sources.   I've worked in sales for a large part of my life, and while I am by NO means an expert, I do know and understand at least this one thing: Cross sales matter, they matter alot!  Got a kid who's never played D&D before but has played Baldur's gate for PS2?  Give us a stated character from that video game.  Got a mom who's read every Elaine Cunningham Forgotten realms novel there is?  Give us one of her characters!  Got a guy who's read Conan but never touched a RPG, whether tabletop or video game, give us Conan!  In effect, if more people from other genres come to the 4TH Edition of D&D the better.  Let Minis cross into books cross into video games cross into tabletop and multi-versa (if that's a word; but you get the picture<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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