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Message: <blockquote data-quote="VinylTap" data-source="post: 6071143" data-attributes="member: 6697217">You're making a ton of assumptions, but who knows, maybe your dad is CEO of Hasbro? I wouldn't even begin to try and guess at Hasbo's and WOTC's business relationship without more information, for all we know they could be hugely supportive of this project. In the mean time, Hasbro is content to keep the IP going and growing, and spending an adequate amount of time on a product with a good deal of fan involvement is a lot of good (basically free) publicity. 1st, 2nd and 3rd editions of DND are still being played (and coincidentally, also still in print). They might not have the user base to support a product line... but than that sort of begs the question doesn't it? Does the user base go away first? or the content?Paizo makes this model work with a lot less IP than DND has to draw from. While Paizo's profits are definitely not in the ballpark of what Hasbro probably wants... the house-hold name of the IP is a pretty good advantage, not to mention how much more "lore" WOTC has to draw upon. While we don't know what the end product will look like, it appears as though WOTC is trying to break DND down to its core, functioning elements in an attempt to never have to redo the system again in its entirety (I know, never say never). If the module books end up being as popular as everyone hopes, there's really no end to what they can mod and refine as the system matures.</blockquote>

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