Not Reading Ryan Dancy

[mmadsen]

Most people who like the game could care less what other products have the name D&D attached to them as long as the product they like and have grown accustomed to doesn't get replaced by those other entities.

I couldn't disagree more. How many times have you heard, "I only like old ________, before they sold out," with reference to Metallica, or The Cure, or whatever cult interest a small group of hardcore fans used to have? People feel easily betrayed by brands that shift away from their initial market.

 

[Ourph]

People feel easily betrayed by brands that shift away from their initial market.

There is only one Metallica. You're talking about replacement of one product with an altered product, which is something I specifically ruled out in my earlier comment. There's a difference between a product shifting away from its initial market and replacing the old product and a brand expanding itself to include new markets while still maintaining support and production of the original, unadulterated product.

Most D&D fans aren't even going to notice, let alone care, let alone care enough to quit playing D&D if WotC markets a Dungeons & Dora boardgame targeted at 4-8 year old kids in addition to producing the same D&D game we are all familiar with.

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

I think there's a good chance, probably 50/50, that we'll see a 3.75 kind of release in 2007...

Apparently Winter Fantasy ended without any decelerations or announcements. So, it likely won't be released this year, but an announcement may be made later.