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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8223853" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>I think this is slightly more likely than you think, but we're probably talking years down the line. I would be unsurprised if WotC try and pick up some sort of narrative RPG of some kind, one that seems both "classy" and "safe" but also has a potentially slightly different audience profile to D&D. I also think it's nearly inevitable that, after releasing a successful AAA CRPG, they try and leverage that TT RPG-wise. If you re-use a successful setting, art and so on, you're not taking a particularly huge risk.</p><p></p><p>I don't think that's ever going to happen. It was a very, very popular idea in the 1980s and 1990s, to the point where TSR put out at least two RPGs designed to be able to do that, and WotC tried to do the same with d20, but it's an idea that's failed time, and time, and time again, and for good reason - generic RPGs are inherently worse at doing their genre than specific RPGs. Generic concepts can work - for example PtbA and BitD have generated dozens of RPGs using the same basic rules concepts, but they have ultra-specific takes within those RPGs, and even the actual mechanics often get tweaked significantly. D&D 5E has far too many hyper-specific concept for this to work with it though. And that's just TSR/WotC there btw failing, but countless others tried and failed or had RPGs that were sort of multiverse-oriented.</p><p></p><p>I think what history has proved at this point is, unless your system is relatively rules-light, i.e. no heavier than something like PtbA, BitD, or Spire, you probably can't even use the concepts generically, let alone anything more.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8223853, member: 18"] I think this is slightly more likely than you think, but we're probably talking years down the line. I would be unsurprised if WotC try and pick up some sort of narrative RPG of some kind, one that seems both "classy" and "safe" but also has a potentially slightly different audience profile to D&D. I also think it's nearly inevitable that, after releasing a successful AAA CRPG, they try and leverage that TT RPG-wise. If you re-use a successful setting, art and so on, you're not taking a particularly huge risk. I don't think that's ever going to happen. It was a very, very popular idea in the 1980s and 1990s, to the point where TSR put out at least two RPGs designed to be able to do that, and WotC tried to do the same with d20, but it's an idea that's failed time, and time, and time again, and for good reason - generic RPGs are inherently worse at doing their genre than specific RPGs. Generic concepts can work - for example PtbA and BitD have generated dozens of RPGs using the same basic rules concepts, but they have ultra-specific takes within those RPGs, and even the actual mechanics often get tweaked significantly. D&D 5E has far too many hyper-specific concept for this to work with it though. And that's just TSR/WotC there btw failing, but countless others tried and failed or had RPGs that were sort of multiverse-oriented. I think what history has proved at this point is, unless your system is relatively rules-light, i.e. no heavier than something like PtbA, BitD, or Spire, you probably can't even use the concepts generically, let alone anything more. [/QUOTE]
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