Spaghetti Sauce

[Sadrik]

Two thoughts come to mind after the video and this thread:


1) If there are multiple D&Ds with different focuses, what do I do if I am someone who likes different parts of the different styles, but not any of the different tastes as a whole individually? Let's say there's D&D Marinara, D&D Old World Style, and D&D Chunky Style. If I like the taste of marinara, but vastly prefer the product packaging of Old World Style; while also vastly preferring the consistency of Chunky Style, can I mix the various pieces? In the beginning, when the whole idea of a modular game for D&D was proposed, I thought yes, but it turns out that I was wrong; what the design team for D&D meant by modular isn't what I had in mind for what I consider to be a modular approach to D&D design.

I think this is where house rules come in.

2) How do the multiple tastes of D&D 'sauce' compete with other companies who teach me how to make my own sauce? (GURPS, Champions, BRP, and other such things for example.) While the D&D brand pretty obviously has the bigger market share right now, and I'd assume they can rely on brand recognition to continue to dominate the market in some fashion, I have to wonder if the sauce approach would lead to gaining more customers or if it would help rivals (Paizo) who have a better mix compete. For me personally; because I do use (what I consider to be) a modular system as my primary rpg (GURPS,) I still buy adventures from Paizo, (occasionally) WoTC, and various other companies because I am capable of converting them into the recipe book I choose to use. I'm not sure how many people outside myself do that though.

Again, I think you have to look at it through the single brand. Prego cannot consider what all the other companies are doing other than market trend. The still have to provide the main tastes to their buyers, the prego way. If prego only has one way, then I think that is more incentive for other companies to step in and say I can provide something that is missing. So I think the more that is covered, the less opportunity competitors have to cover missing bases. Not everything can be covered of course...