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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8223860" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>I think the FUNDAMENTAL challenge is, from WotC's perspective there's just little upside to it: ALL other RPGs combined don't add up to 1/10th of D&D. It is effectively, from a business point of view, the entire RPG industry. What have they to gain by dominating the scraps of business left over after you eliminate D&D? There is zero business case for it. At best one could imagine other RPGs as some sort of ancillary product intended to enhance the IP of something Hasbro already owns. There seems to be little fodder there... GI Joe the RPG? Barbie the RPG? I mean, yeah, maybe you could come up with something viable from a few of their product lines, but it would probably sink without a trace on release. Given that, they'd spend practically no money on it and it would join the few other promo RPGs that have come and gone without accomplishing anything. </p><p></p><p>I mean, the only other obvious RPG candidate for WotC is M:tG, and they're already providing material to let you run D&D in those settings, it doesn't need another RPG. Honestly, TSR ran into the same problem back in the day. They released a few other games. They were well-received, but in a business sense they were really insignificant and few of them ever got a revision or any great amount of support. Nor did most of them strike me as top-notch designs that they spent a ton of effort on (a couple stood out somewhat, Top Secret, MSH, and Star Frontiers did have some success).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 8223860, member: 82106"] I think the FUNDAMENTAL challenge is, from WotC's perspective there's just little upside to it: ALL other RPGs combined don't add up to 1/10th of D&D. It is effectively, from a business point of view, the entire RPG industry. What have they to gain by dominating the scraps of business left over after you eliminate D&D? There is zero business case for it. At best one could imagine other RPGs as some sort of ancillary product intended to enhance the IP of something Hasbro already owns. There seems to be little fodder there... GI Joe the RPG? Barbie the RPG? I mean, yeah, maybe you could come up with something viable from a few of their product lines, but it would probably sink without a trace on release. Given that, they'd spend practically no money on it and it would join the few other promo RPGs that have come and gone without accomplishing anything. I mean, the only other obvious RPG candidate for WotC is M:tG, and they're already providing material to let you run D&D in those settings, it doesn't need another RPG. Honestly, TSR ran into the same problem back in the day. They released a few other games. They were well-received, but in a business sense they were really insignificant and few of them ever got a revision or any great amount of support. Nor did most of them strike me as top-notch designs that they spent a ton of effort on (a couple stood out somewhat, Top Secret, MSH, and Star Frontiers did have some success). [/QUOTE]
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