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Message: <blockquote data-quote="steelgrave" data-source="post: 1601100" data-attributes="member: 19633">hahaha well after reading most of this thread, I think it's a good thing most of you aren't running WoTC. No offense but there was very little business sense here.Ok so if it was me running things:1) To fix the fundamental flaws going forward in the books (such as Complete Divine's mistakes, PGtF mistakes etc..), after the editors have done their "editing" I'd have someone randomly find 10 people who requested to be "beta" testers of a particular product. Send it to them for final proofing (obviously they wouldn't be paid for this, and they'd have to sign an NDA etc..). I think alot of us can easily spot the ridiculous errors we've seen of late, and most of us would love the chance to do that for a free advanced copy of something right?2) Greyhawk would get updated to 3.5. As far as how much of the product gets sold would largely depend on some decent market research (meaning if enough people would buy a 3.5 greyhawk book to justify making one, or if it should be a pdf, etc...). I know everyone is somewhat opinionated on greyhawk (and FR, dragonlance etc...), but if there is a large enough customer base out there willing to buy the product, why the hell aren't they making it?In other words, vastly improve the market research/support of existing lines of products.3) Update old modules etc... to 3.0 and 3.5 and make them for sale through whatever channel makes sense (similar to 2 above). There's a tremendous amount of IP just sitting around that could be updated and sold for minimal time investment. Granted some people won't want to buy this stuff and update the old stuff themselves, but for $10, I'll buy the thing personally, and I doubt I'm alone.4) <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />-can any idea of another D&D movie, didn't they learn their lesson the first time?5) Hire Vin Diesel as a spokesman/add him to the board or something to get him more involved. Regardless of what some of us think of his acting ability and what have you, the guy is popular and loves the game. Anything that gives it more exposure is a good thing.6) Start planning for version 4.0. Yes this may be an unpopular idea now, but considering it could take 5+ years to put it together anyway it makes sense to at least start internally talking about it. It really is rather funny that the reason 2.0 came out was because the original AD&D was so fragmented in so many books and it annoyed everyone. Now look at what it's like (same thing all over again).7) The leatherbound PHB is a great idea, and as a collector's item many people will buy one. I'd make limited editions of all 3 main 3.5 books, as well as release versions of 1.0 in limited form. Yes it'll make a little money, but they'd also be pretty cool to have.8) Come up with some version of an online game that would run the D20 rules and sort of be a combination of everquest and Neverwinter nights. This would take a hell of alot of work and time and money, but I think the end result if done properly would really be something, and could make a fortune.Just some ideas I thought of off the top of my head. Most would probably not be feasible, but i think they're at least worth looking into...</blockquote>

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