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<blockquote data-quote="Maggan" data-source="post: 3856563" data-attributes="member: 6616"><p>I have an idea how they can sell oodles and oodles of the books.</p><p></p><p>First a preamble.</p><p></p><p>In London, there is a theatre which shows The Mouse Trap, a theatre version of an Agatha Christie book (as far as I understand it). It's been running for 52 years or something like that, and one of the "gimmicks" is that the audience are "sworn" not to reveal the ending to anyone who hasn't seen the play.</p><p></p><p>So, to know the ending, you have to see the play. In theory, of course, but it's the idea that's important.</p><p></p><p>So, if WotC could make sure that each and every gamer who buys the books take an oath not to reveal the contents to anyone not buying the books ... it'll be a home run! <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /> </p><p></p><p>Imagine the people now being all cool and laid back, saying "people will blab about it online, so I'll get the dirt anyway".</p><p></p><p>Now imagine if we who will buy the books decided, "no, we're not saying. We paid for this information, so we're keeping it!". <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious :]" data-shortname=":]" /> </p><p></p><p>So those eager for info would then go out and buy the books.</p><p></p><p>That would be a great thing to witness. Not that it'll happen, of course. But it'd be fun to watch.</p><p></p><p>As an observation, I was slightly disappointed by the end of The Mouse Trap. I fingered the culprit after 15 minutes, so the surprise ending was not that exciting. It was the gamer blood that helped me! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> </p><p></p><p>/M</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Maggan, post: 3856563, member: 6616"] I have an idea how they can sell oodles and oodles of the books. First a preamble. In London, there is a theatre which shows The Mouse Trap, a theatre version of an Agatha Christie book (as far as I understand it). It's been running for 52 years or something like that, and one of the "gimmicks" is that the audience are "sworn" not to reveal the ending to anyone who hasn't seen the play. So, to know the ending, you have to see the play. In theory, of course, but it's the idea that's important. So, if WotC could make sure that each and every gamer who buys the books take an oath not to reveal the contents to anyone not buying the books ... it'll be a home run! :lol: Imagine the people now being all cool and laid back, saying "people will blab about it online, so I'll get the dirt anyway". Now imagine if we who will buy the books decided, "no, we're not saying. We paid for this information, so we're keeping it!". :] So those eager for info would then go out and buy the books. That would be a great thing to witness. Not that it'll happen, of course. But it'd be fun to watch. As an observation, I was slightly disappointed by the end of The Mouse Trap. I fingered the culprit after 15 minutes, so the surprise ending was not that exciting. It was the gamer blood that helped me! :D /M [/QUOTE]
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