If You Had an Unlimited Budget How Would Enhance The D&D Experience

KB9JMQ · Aug 2, 2005

Holodeck

and enough time free to use it to game whenever.

Well you did say unlimited budget

Janx · Aug 2, 2005

Well aside from getting a better game room and DM software tools, I'd spend the money on props.

For a game with newspapers and such, I'd want newspapers, filled with interesting articles set in the game area

I'd want actual wizards spellbooks and research tomes, with clues of things for players to investigate.

basically, fluff generation, all relevant to my campaign. This costs time and money (to pay real writers to produce it)

sniffles · Aug 2, 2005

I'd find a way to warp time so my friends' family and work commitments would never interfere with gaming time.

Varianor Abroad · Aug 2, 2005

What Teflon Billy said.

On my own island.

With a personal assistant to do all the grunt work.

Plus a chopper and jet fleet to get all my friends out to play when we wnated to game.

jmucchiello · Aug 2, 2005

sniffles said:
I'd find a way to warp time so my friends' family and work commitments would never interfere with gaming time.

No, no, no. You have an unlimited budget. Just pay them to be your full-time gaming posse.

jmucchiello · Aug 2, 2005

jgbrowning said:
If I had an unlimited budget I'd buy Dungeons and Dragons from WoTC.

This is my answer as well.

And I don't think most of the answers here are responding in the correct range: "Enhance The D&D Experience" I think meant "for everyone" not just "for you". Who cares about spending millions on a room you and your six friends can play together in?

With an unlimited budget you could:
1) lose money advertising the game on commercials.
2) create gaming books that are worth hundreds of dollars and PAY HOBBY SHOPS TO GIVE THEM AWAY FREE and still pay the authors/artists/developers.
3) hire experienced DMs to provide free introductory adventures for people who ask about the commercial.
4) produce a REAL D&D movie or two or one hundred.
5) create a cable network for RPGs with televised (and well-edited) gaming sessions. (Now that's a money sink!) (Probably need to piggyback off GSN in reality, but with unlimited funds, you can "convince" the cable providers to put your network right on channel 3 or 4 in all markets.

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6) product tie-ins with McDonalds/Coca-cola/You-name-it. (A D&D mini in every happy meal, win D&D books in soda bottle caps)
7) create FM/satellite broadcast stations in all markets playing "mood" music 24/7. The mysterious channel, the battle channel, the travelling music channel.
8) have congress/parliment/whatever-governing-body-you-have declare August national D&D month. (Think of the odd PSAs.)
9) ensure all releases are translated into the major languages of the world and that these translated volumes are released the same day as the original releases.

and that's just to begin with. Think BIG.

Ozmar · Aug 2, 2005

Wombat said:
I'd also get reproduction coins, so people know EXACTLY what they have; probably also fake jewels/jewelry.

Dude, why fake? You've got an unlimited budget. Don't be a miser. Get the real stuff.

Me: DM? I lost my props from last week. Can I have replacements?
DM: Again?!

Ozmar · Aug 2, 2005

jmucchiello said:
7) create FM/satellite broadcast stations in all markets playing "mood" music 24/7. The mysterious channel, the battle channel, the travelling music channel.

That sounds cool! I'd listen to radio-broadcast gaming sessions. A good one would be awesome, and beat the heck out of talk radio or prairie home companion...

Odhanan · Aug 2, 2005

I could always use a few thousand dollards in supplies, dioramas, minis, equipment like armchairs and such... but really nothing like ILM sound effects and like that. That just would lessen the enjoyment I get through gaming and imagining stuff.

So. Just give me a $10 000 check and I'll be happy with it.