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<blockquote data-quote="buzz" data-source="post: 1148955" data-attributes="member: 6777"><p>I'm going to apologize in advance for the probable snarkiness of this post; I can't think of a way to ask this wihtout giving offense, but I assure you that I am simply looking for enlightenment.</p><p></p><p>Anyway...</p><p></p><p>I have to admit that I don't fully understand why grownups playing a game targeted at 18-24 year-olds want an rpg or supplement based on a license that's essentially directed advertising once used to sell toys to 8 year-olds. Consequently, I'm having a hard time seeing why WotC would find it profitable to invest time and money in such a product. I'm feeling the same sort of suspicion/confusion that I would with a licensed He-man rpg or a Jem and the Holograms supplement. (And, boy, I don't even want to think about the field day the RPG.net crowd would have if WotC actually released <em>G.I. Joe d20</em>.) Frankly, I'd be kind of embarassed. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></p><p></p><p>Is it just the nostalgia? Admittedly, I've never read any G.I. Joe or Transformers comics, so I don't know if they somehow "upgraded" these "settings" to something more than a means to move product in toy stores.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, what you guys should really be looking at is <a href="http://www.zmangames.com/CAH/about.htm" target="_blank">Cartoon Action Hour</a>, not d20M. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>Again, apologies if this came off too "William Shatner at a Trek convention."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="buzz, post: 1148955, member: 6777"] I'm going to apologize in advance for the probable snarkiness of this post; I can't think of a way to ask this wihtout giving offense, but I assure you that I am simply looking for enlightenment. Anyway... I have to admit that I don't fully understand why grownups playing a game targeted at 18-24 year-olds want an rpg or supplement based on a license that's essentially directed advertising once used to sell toys to 8 year-olds. Consequently, I'm having a hard time seeing why WotC would find it profitable to invest time and money in such a product. I'm feeling the same sort of suspicion/confusion that I would with a licensed He-man rpg or a Jem and the Holograms supplement. (And, boy, I don't even want to think about the field day the RPG.net crowd would have if WotC actually released [i]G.I. Joe d20[/i].) Frankly, I'd be kind of embarassed. :( Is it just the nostalgia? Admittedly, I've never read any G.I. Joe or Transformers comics, so I don't know if they somehow "upgraded" these "settings" to something more than a means to move product in toy stores. Anyway, what you guys should really be looking at is [URL=http://www.zmangames.com/CAH/about.htm]Cartoon Action Hour[/URL], not d20M. ;) Again, apologies if this came off too "William Shatner at a Trek convention." [/QUOTE]
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