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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 4410446" data-attributes="member: 59082">First of all, who could afford to buy D&D? It would either be another large company, evening a game company (Milton Bradley?), or some bored multi-millionaire who used to play D&D when he was a kid and wants to save it. I just don't see any current RPG company being able to muster enough cash to make Hasbro a tempting offer.But regardless, there would be a gap into which Paizo and others would feast mightily. Someone would figure out a way to basically create 4th edition products without calling them such, while Paizo would--if they played their cards right--cajole the large number of current fence-sitters who play 4ed because it is the current edition of D&D but don't love it.There is a another alternative that comes to mind. If anyone is from Portland, OR, they might remember that about ten years ago there was a small natural foods chain called Nature's Fresh Northwest that sold itself to GNC with the understanding that GNC would offer financial backing but be hands off. A year later GNC sold Nature's to Wild Oats Markets and the old Nature's people left in disgust and started a new chain called New Seasons. New Seasons proceeded to build store by store and eventually drove the Portland Wild Oats stores out of business. This is the only time I can think of when a local company actually drove a major corporation out (of course Wild Oats was bought by their even larger competition, Whole Foods).So this other alternative is that if Hasbro actually shelves D&D, you're going to have a lot of irate WotC D&D designers without jobs. What if they break away, put their heads together, and--perhaps with the backing of an already established game company--create a D&D-esque RPG that "out-D&Ds D&D"? (This is related to a thread I started a month or so ago pondering what kind of fantasy RPG could thrive and even compete with D&D).</blockquote>

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