If you were head of WotC what would you do?

[dead]

For example, I know that boxed sets are bad financially, as are adventures, and that multiple campaigns divide the very market I want unified under my company. This despite the fact that I want adventures, boxed sets, and all the old campaigns restored.

As fond as I am about my old boxed sets, I actually don't mind that everythings being released as a hardcover (with a tear-out map). It's much easier to read something that's just in one, easy-to-reference, book.

Although public opinion seems against this, I'd take steps to reintegrate a holistic cosmology. While I'd prefer to have every world use one planar structure, I suppose I could be talked into multiple linked cosmologies, but I'd play up the linking a bit...maybe throwing a few cross-world stuff in here and there as easter eggs. Such as a short story where a Manshoon clone comes to Greyhawk, and Khelben the Younger (who lives there) and Mordenkainen show up to blast the hell out of him.

Even though I had a lot of fun in 2E, world-hopping from GH to FR to DL, I think that it makes sense to keep D&D worlds separate. It let's 'em stand on their own two-feet and be the *centre* of the multiverse, so to speak. But, as I've already mentioned, with me as WotC manager, I'd make FR the default D&D world, give it back the Great Wheel, return all the diverse gods from Legends and Lore, and let the party begin! GH and DL would no longer be at the party, though.

 

[drow]

spend three years and thirty million dollars writing a fully scalable, object-oriented d20 system. oo-d20 would include a system for creating new races and classes which inheirit from existing race and class objects (including multiple inheiritance and a rational system for stacking spellcaster levels), and provide a workable open-ended character level progression (no epic wonkyness). races and classes are largely polymorphic. skills are also rewritten into several broad skills and trees of more specific sub-skills which inheirit from them. racial and class abilities provide methods which can be overloaded to provide different benefits in various contexts. feats provide basic methods which can also be overloaded, some may be taken multiply for improved overloads.

it would be published as D&D 4e on april 1st.

 

[d4]

Release D&D *4E* so that it references d20 Core (see above).

ugghh, no not yet! it's too soon to put out a new edition, even if you think you've got a better rules set.

GREYHAWK
Give all rights to GREYHAWK back to Gary Gygax.

and good riddance, as far as i'm concerned.

FORGOTTEN REALMS
Make FR the "default" D&D setting.

i think it'd be more likely to make Eberron the new default setting. it seems to fit the new-fangled 3.x D&D "feel" better than FR.

Re-release OA for 4E with Kara-Tur as the default setting. Release the Kara-Tur Campaign Setting as a hardcover book.

Release 4E Arabian Adventures with Zakara as the default setting. Release the Zakara Campaign Setting as a hardcover book.

if you're going to be releasing campaign setting books anyways, remove all setting material from the rulesy books and have them be tool-kits. there's no sense splitting what should be a generic book between generic and campaign specific rules, and then releasing a second campaign specific book on top of that. it's annoying to us homebrewers.

(for what it's worth, i think the core 3 D&D books should be setting-less as well. no default gods or named spells.)

RAVENLOFT
Sell to the highest bidder.

they already did that.

 

[d4]

spend three years and thirty million dollars writing a fully scalable, object-oriented d20 system. oo-d20 would include a system for creating new races and classes which inheirit from existing race and class objects (including multiple inheiritance and a rational system for stacking spellcaster levels), and provide a workable open-ended character level progression (no epic wonkyness). races and classes are largely polymorphic. skills are also rewritten into several broad skills and trees of more specific sub-skills which inheirit from them. racial and class abilities provide methods which can be overloaded to provide different benefits in various contexts. feats provide basic methods which can also be overloaded, some may be taken multiply for improved overloads.

you know, perversely, that actually makes sense...

 

[hong]

spend three years and thirty million dollars writing a fully scalable, object-oriented d20 system. oo-d20 would include a system for creating new races and classes which inheirit from existing race and class objects (including multiple inheiritance and a rational system for stacking spellcaster levels), and provide a workable open-ended character level progression (no epic wonkyness). races and classes are largely polymorphic. skills are also rewritten into several broad skills and trees of more specific sub-skills which inheirit from them. racial and class abilities provide methods which can be overloaded to provide different benefits in various contexts. feats provide basic methods which can also be overloaded, some may be taken multiply for improved overloads.

OMGLOL it's d20++ !!!1

 

[d4]

OMGLOL it's d20++ !!!1

wouldn't that be d22?

 

[Darklone]

I'd sell anything that I can and buy myself a small little island.

 

[Maggan]

BLACKMOOR
Hand back rights to Dave Arneson.

I was under the impression that Blackmoor was already in Arnesons hands, what with Blackmoor d20 coming out soon?

Maggan

 

[LurkerFreak]

Hire back all the creative talent we got rid of.
Stop rehashing old books with minor updates to bring them in line with the new edition.
Make sure all 3.5 books contained the 3.0 converted material because not eveyone wanted to replace books that were only a few years old.
Stop any other customer rip offs like these

You can probably guess I'm not happy with the whole 3.5 thing. Stopped buying D&D stuff as soon as I heard it was being released.

 

[Thanee]

wouldn't that be d22?

Just in case, he's referring to the object-oriented programming language C++ there.

Sorry, if you actually knew that.


Oh, and I would get sacked after doing D&D v3.75, which is the re-revised version of v3.5 (including the more important non-core rulebooks, of course), and make it available for free, so it does not cause an outbreak, draining the company resources considerably with this act of goodness!

Bye
Thanee