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<blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 6280651" data-attributes="member: 37579"><p>D&D isn't a food. It's an IP based franchise like TV or movies. </p><p></p><p>Said much of this before but I'll repeat. </p><p>You can do a whole lot of different things to Bond, making him more or less comedic, more or less sociopathic, more or less womanizing, more or less grounded in reality, and more or less dark haired. MGM owns the rights, they can do whatever they want with Bond. If they want Bond to be an effete black man or an overweight hispanic woman then that will officially be the new Bond. And it could work. But if you change one element that much, to sell it has a Bond movie everything else has to be that much more Bond. </p><p>But if you drift too much away from the core elements of "Bond" the harder it will be to recognise the character. You can cast a blond thug, or make the movies science fiction, or drift away from the source books. But if you go too far the franchise becomes indistinct, too much like another spy movie franchise, which there are no shortage of.</p><p></p><p>At best this is like New Coke. Because if you change D&D too much it just becomes a generic RPG with a familiar name. And there's plenty of other Colas on the market. Although, this is more complicated as there are established varieties of "Coke" out there. You have the Cherry Coke of 3e and the New Coke of 4e. There is some diversity. But each vending machine will only stock one or two, to leave room for non-Coke beverages for people who hate cola.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jester David, post: 6280651, member: 37579"] D&D isn't a food. It's an IP based franchise like TV or movies. Said much of this before but I'll repeat. You can do a whole lot of different things to Bond, making him more or less comedic, more or less sociopathic, more or less womanizing, more or less grounded in reality, and more or less dark haired. MGM owns the rights, they can do whatever they want with Bond. If they want Bond to be an effete black man or an overweight hispanic woman then that will officially be the new Bond. And it could work. But if you change one element that much, to sell it has a Bond movie everything else has to be that much more Bond. But if you drift too much away from the core elements of "Bond" the harder it will be to recognise the character. You can cast a blond thug, or make the movies science fiction, or drift away from the source books. But if you go too far the franchise becomes indistinct, too much like another spy movie franchise, which there are no shortage of. At best this is like New Coke. Because if you change D&D too much it just becomes a generic RPG with a familiar name. And there's plenty of other Colas on the market. Although, this is more complicated as there are established varieties of "Coke" out there. You have the Cherry Coke of 3e and the New Coke of 4e. There is some diversity. But each vending machine will only stock one or two, to leave room for non-Coke beverages for people who hate cola. [/QUOTE]
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