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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8916647" data-attributes="member: 7006"><p>They probably might have a slightly better chance, yes... but I do wonder whether name recognition of the designer is enough of a thing that can drive enough people to their work, and not the work itself and the game/setting their work falls into?</p><p></p><p>I have no doubt there are some customers out there in RPG land that follow designers based purely on their name and the work from them they've enjoyed previously... but are those customers enough to risk moving onto a new thing if your livelihood depends on it? Every designer is going to have to really think about that.</p><p></p><p>I mean if you think about it... Monte Cook had/has one of the biggest names in the industry currently, and was able to use it to transition a lot of his fanbase away from D&D-adjacent material and over to Monte Cook Games and Numenera / Cypher System. And he's been able to run a business off of that transition-- at least... for some amount of time. But even right now Monte Cook Games has begun writing and selling all manner of 5E Compatible games too... presumably because they sell. Doesn't that tell us that in many ways it is in fact the game system that a lot of customers care about, moreso than the writer and the ideas that writer has?</p><p></p><p>If even Monte Cook has to come back to the 5E pool because that's where the customers are (after selling all he could to the people who followed him on name and ability alone)... anyone else I would expect has to be exceedingly concerned about trying to do the same thing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 8916647, member: 7006"] They probably might have a slightly better chance, yes... but I do wonder whether name recognition of the designer is enough of a thing that can drive enough people to their work, and not the work itself and the game/setting their work falls into? I have no doubt there are some customers out there in RPG land that follow designers based purely on their name and the work from them they've enjoyed previously... but are those customers enough to risk moving onto a new thing if your livelihood depends on it? Every designer is going to have to really think about that. I mean if you think about it... Monte Cook had/has one of the biggest names in the industry currently, and was able to use it to transition a lot of his fanbase away from D&D-adjacent material and over to Monte Cook Games and Numenera / Cypher System. And he's been able to run a business off of that transition-- at least... for some amount of time. But even right now Monte Cook Games has begun writing and selling all manner of 5E Compatible games too... presumably because they sell. Doesn't that tell us that in many ways it is in fact the game system that a lot of customers care about, moreso than the writer and the ideas that writer has? If even Monte Cook has to come back to the 5E pool because that's where the customers are (after selling all he could to the people who followed him on name and ability alone)... anyone else I would expect has to be exceedingly concerned about trying to do the same thing. [/QUOTE]
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