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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8916349" data-attributes="member: 19857">Somebody needs to check on Coville and make sure he's okay. I'm dead serious about this - I don't know him personally but if I saw that on a friend's feed and I knew they were looking at their own life plans being disrupted by events the way his have, I would definitely check on them.But he needs to hang around with more 13 year olds. He also needs to work for some big corporations (or at least become more cynical about what they can actually accomplish - I actually don't recommend anyone work for them if they can avoid it).Hasbro's plans for D&D might be everything he says. It doesn't mean they'll succeed. In fact, it's very likely they'll fail. Because Hasbro is paying way too much attention now to D&D. Their plans have to actually pay off big. Not break even. Not be mildly profitable. But big pay off - year to year growth that's bigger every year than the last. It's very unlikely that their D&D plans are going to work out that way. And when they don't quickly work the way they want them to the plan will be abandoned and something else will take its place. Big corps have a lot more pressures that keep them from sticking to long term plans that deviate from their status quo than smaller companies do, and Hasbro hasn't shown themselves to be the exception to that rule.Also - if you're in the boat that Coville is and you think that Wizards will inevitably "destroy" D&D with the younger generation, then it's time to stop teaching them to play D&D and start introducing them to RPGs through other games and supporting other games. Wizards doesn't own the concept of RPGs, and there are plenty out there to choose from. You don't even have to stray far from D&D to find a suitable replacement - Level Up, 13th Age and Pathfinder are all in that same zone to one degree or another (among others) and all of their publishers have basically positioned themselves as moving forward with some kind of open licensing in one way or another no matter what Hasbro does.</blockquote>

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