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<blockquote data-quote="JustinA" data-source="post: 3509000" data-attributes="member: 51618">Here's how this went:WotC: Look, we all love your stuff. We'd like to use the immense popularity of D&amp;D to send you a massive number of new customers. How's that sound?Chaoisum: <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> you.Whether you're a BRP fan or not, Chaosium dropped the ball. They control some of the best IP in the history of RPGs. All they had to do was sit down, stat it up for D20, and push it out rapidly to coincide with the release and marketing of CoC D20. I know for a fact that they had multiple freelancers knocking on their door and saying, &quot;Hey, we'll do this work for you. We'll do it for you cheap.&quot;In the end, all they managed was to push a couple of dual-statted products out the door. (Here's a news-flash to the industry: No one likes dual-statted products. There is absolutely no way to make a dual-statted product look attractive to anybody.)I might have had more tolerance for them if they had simultaneously been releasing new product for BRP. But they weren't. This is a company which has rested on the laurels of its past success and apparently had its spirit broken by the Mythos CCG failure.Now it looks like Chaosium is finally starting to push product out in a meaningful fashion. We'll see how the quality stands up compared to the classic stuff I've got sitting on my shelf.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JustinA, post: 3509000, member: 51618"] Here's how this went: WotC: Look, we all love your stuff. We'd like to use the immense popularity of D&D to send you a massive number of new customers. How's that sound? Chaoisum: :):):):) you. Whether you're a BRP fan or not, Chaosium dropped the ball. They control some of the best IP in the history of RPGs. All they had to do was sit down, stat it up for D20, and push it out rapidly to coincide with the release and marketing of CoC D20. I know for a fact that they had multiple freelancers knocking on their door and saying, "Hey, we'll do this work for you. We'll do it for you cheap." In the end, all they managed was to push a couple of dual-statted products out the door. (Here's a news-flash to the industry: No one likes dual-statted products. There is absolutely no way to make a dual-statted product look attractive to anybody.) I might have had more tolerance for them if they had simultaneously been releasing new product for BRP. But they weren't. This is a company which has rested on the laurels of its past success and apparently had its spirit broken by the Mythos CCG failure. Now it looks like Chaosium is finally starting to push product out in a meaningful fashion. We'll see how the quality stands up compared to the classic stuff I've got sitting on my shelf. [/QUOTE]

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