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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tzeentch" data-source="post: 3482922" data-attributes="member: 13222">The interview seemed a bit uh ... "content lite" but it does answer some of the questions that have been posed (the low hanging fruit at least). I would suspect that they have material for a rollout of whatever it is, and the comments about "what would you like to see" is a reasonable attempt to try to turn negativity into more constructive feedback. I'm just glad they are not going to completely sit back and let this mistrust seep into the fandom so deep that it screws up the entire player network.WotC almost certainly has content for their DI ready now or in production (really, it could even just be the long-missing errata and many would be jumping for joy) and are probably looking to tailor it as best they can via internet feedback, monitoring the traffic on their website articles, and checking what worked in Dragon/Dungeon. I mean seriously, if they can get their house staff to write articles praising the company direction they can break out the whips to generate material for the house organ as well ("You! Yes, you behind the copy of Synibarr! Get that material cut from Races of Eberron in printable form by 7 am! Stand STILL laddie!" <whipcrack>)What I Want to See* Little DRM. Really, don't bother. If you allow printing of the material all DRM will do is piss off the customers and drive a LOT of traffic to bookwarez. If you don't allow printing ... well good luck with that ... and it still won't prevent the books from getting released. Laugh in the face of anyone claiming otherwise.* Campaign Classics. Not everyone cares, or even likes, the "official" takes on old material that has slowly come out. I'd love to see old stuff revisited independently, even the same stuff with different viewpoints.* Buy-in Sweeteners. Have an old D&D PDF available for free each month to subscribers (ideally, newer scans of the old books since many of the current PDFs are almost unreadable). Heck, if you theme monthly content have it tie-in somehow and get a writer to create some conversions to the new rules versions.* DDM Content. A regular article on using DDM in your RPG campaign - different characters or creatures that can use the existing minis (or require only minor kitbashing) would be cool. For example, a series of NPCs or monsters of various CR/campaign type using X figure. You can start by releasing FIXED versions of the DDM RPG stat cards (I'd volunteer to work on this since stat errors annoy me almost as much as John Cooper). Heck, even some Dreamblade action or the Axis and Allies vehicles in d20 Modern <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=":)" />* Magic of the Month. Get some brand synergy going. Have a Magic: The Gathering card each weak translated into D&D/d20 terms. Thrulls and Sera Angels oh my!* Content Contests. If you guys still own the old Dragon/Dungeon articles have some small contests (swag or PDF prizes or something) for putting new spins on the old material. If you are not giving access to old issues for basic subscription then release the article as content along with the contest guidelines. Things like that ancient Dragon article for growing warriors from dragon teeth - but maybe with a Dragonlance spin or a version where you grow things from troll teeth. Mainly thinking this would be a way to empower readership to contribute and maybe grow a new freelancer.* Campaign Cartography. As a GIS major in college, I'd personally love to see the staff cartographers tips and tricks to make good looking maps and such. Stuff like tips on creating good item libraries, basic cartographic principles for noobs, and how the artists manage their Photoshop/Illustrator/whatever layers.</blockquote>

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