If I bought WoTC I would......[your answer here]

1. I would write a loooong note telling Hasbro to politely go f*** themselves and their besuited attitude.

2. I would create a new boxed set of DMG, MM, PHB and a packaged adventure for $150 CAD ($100 USD). I would run a fan contest to supply the adventure, which would change each month. At the end of the year, I would publish all the adventures as free .pdf files under the title of 'An Enthusiast's Compendium'.

3. I would create a series of four commercial spots around a central theme. Four players, one GM, and each player gets a commercial more or less devoted to his or her character. Each scene would be some dark, dangerous event quite obviously coming to a head (dim gladiator pit, hero captured and about to be tortured in a cave, a terrible storm at sea, the beginnings of a war, etc.) Just as the climax of the scene arrives, the scene pans back out of the player's eye to the table where they are sitting.

The GM says," So, what do you do now?" and the table erupts with people talking.

Wizards of the Coast: all we build is imagination.

4. I would create three holistic and organic game worlds, each with its own flavour of fantasy from high to low, from heroic to dingy. Each world would be a comprehensive whole supported with literature and art 'native' to the world in question.
 

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What a bizarre question.

It's a difficult one.

I think Mobius' TV ad idea is a good one. I like that slogan, too.

I think the first thing I'd do is to sell off the CCG and Pokemon lines to someone else that actually cared about them. I'd keep the rights to be able to produce the M:TG world as an RPG, however, and the rights to produce a Pokemon RPG.

I would then set out to writing said M:TG RPG and Pokemon RPG and market them to places like Toys-R-Us and Wal-Mart.

Supplements, supplements, supplements.

Then, several years down the line, I'd introduce the 2nd edition of each rules, and they'd be based on the D20 license, and then I've managed to convert everyone over to D&D without them even knowing about it, and the best part of all is that I've managed to sneakily sell D&D at every Wal-Mart store without them knowing about it, either.

In the meantime, I'd focus on putting out quality modules covering an array of party levels, not just cheesy low-level stuff. Epic-level modules and modules for mid-levels and high-level characters. And big RttToEE kinds of modules. And I'd honor the agreement to publish the submission entry, and then there'd be supplements for whatever world that is.

And a D&D cartoon series.

And an action figure line.

And then I'd retire, and game forever in the Bahamas.
 

I would cut out all products except the Star Wars, Pokemon, Magic, and D&D line.

I would then purchase R. Talsorian / Hero Games Fuzion system and get a good magic system done for it. I would release it as a generic role playing rules system and support it with books, including a Magic RPG and Pokemon RPG. When it was time for fourth edition, it would use that system as well, getting rid of the class and level system in D&D.
 
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Silverthrone said:
I would then purchase R. Talsorian / Hero Games Fuzion system and get a good magic system done for it. I would release it as a generic role playing rules system and support it with books, including a Magic RPG and Pokemon RPG. When it was time for fourth edition, it would use that system as well, getting rid of the class and level system in D&D.

And in one fell swoop loose a TON of customers, myself included :)
 

Sell part of it off to Scott and Clark, (at least the Greyhawk part), the second half in join venture with Chris Pramas and Monte Cook (let them fight over Planscape and Spelljammer stuff), give the rights to Dark Sun and Birthright over to MEG, and finally what's left over (The realms) I'd sell to S&SS. :)
 


Irda Ranger said:
You don't play Bob "Damn the Torpedos!!!" Barbarian very often, do you? I sense a lack of recklessness ...

Ah, yes. Because those reckless bararians are sooooo well known for having sound business plans...

"I am Kozak, of the Hill People! I am here to burn and pillage my way across the countryside, organize a few staff meetings, and make sure your accounts recievable are in order!"
 


Nightfall said:
...and finally what's left over (The realms) I'd sell to S&SS. :)

And why would they want that when they already have The Scarred Lands which is in every way (but name recognition) superior to the realms???


P.S. - I just realized who posted this, and am even more shocked.
 

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