[Speculation] What if D&D got sold...

[Ranger REG]

Personally, I like what WotC has done with D&D, and I hope they keep it for as long as they are willing to make version 3.5 products.

The only thing that I really think they dropped the ball on was a solid, comprehensive DM computer tool to help prep games.

Oh, please! If I can play D&D without computers (like I did in the 80's), so can you. Besides, the computer hasn't been much help when it comes to editing, not even for WotC.

 

[dmccoy1693]

Oh, please! If I can play D&D without computers (like I did in the 80's), so can you.

Can we, yes, of course. Could they help, depends on the person. Me, the first D&D character of my adult gaming career that I made myself (as in not telling someone what I wanted in the character and they made it for me), I came up with an excel file that did all the math for me, double checked my class/cross class ranks, etc, so that way I wouldn't mess it up. I still use it for NPC contruction. It's darn useful. If that's what a single person that has an unrelated job can do, imagine what a company that does this full time can do.

 

[jgbrowning]

If that's what a single person that has an unrelated job can do, imagine what a company that does this full time can do.

e-tools.....

joe b.

 

[Brown Jenkin]

It would be like selling the Led Zeppelin song library to Marilyn Manson.

Or selling the Beatles song library to Michael Jackson.

Maybe Lorraine Williams can get some PE guys to fund her in purchasing D&D.

 

[Frostmarrow]

I think a more likely scenario is that Blizzard (World of Warcraft, Starcraft, et al.) would buy D&D.

Care to speculate in what they would use it for? I sort of agree but don't know why.

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

Blizzard, on the other hand, has no incentive to purchase D&D aside from nostalgia. Warcraft is a stronger brand, anything electronic they put out under the D&D license would compete with their own brands, and anything they put out in the pen and paper market could be done without the D&D license.

Never underestimate nostalgia as a motivator. While there may be little business reason for them to buy it, that doesn't always stop people.

After all, why'd WotC buy TSR?

Brad

 

[Krolik]

After all, why'd WotC buy TSR?

Because TSR was struggling under mismanagement and there was a business opportunity for WotC to expand its market.

 

[Imruphel]

So! It's YOUR fault that Margaret Jackson resigned!

Hehe... no I don't like airlines as a business... and I have very bad feelings about Qantas. Long live Emirates!

 

[Ranger REG]

Can we, yes, of course. Could they help, depends on the person.

Meh. I see computer aids as a new-school roleplayer sees miniatures for D&D: on the bottom of their essential shopping list (if they're even on it at all).

 

[Shining Dragon]

Never underestimate nostalgia as a motivator.

Yeah. I bought DND 3E when it came out due to nostalgia. Now I just gotten Shadowrun 4E for the same reason.

Sometimes people do crazy things. And people run companies....