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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 1246992" data-attributes="member: 177">The link that Staffan gave suggests that it's not all that likely to work, though.  The previous survey showed that there aren't many "general gamers" out there.  Issuing a D&D based game in another gaming genre (say collectible card games, or miniature wargames) is not likely to bring those players over to RPGs, as only a minority tend to play more than one type of hobby game.  This leaves a company free to use the IP in different game types without hurting themselves, but they aren't likely to cause bleed-over.  Unless, of course, you think that the CCG players and wargame players just don't know that D&D exists, and that the new crossover game woudl be their introduction.  I doubt that most CCG and wargame players are ignorant of D&D.  They know it is there, and don't choose to play it.  Giving them a dwarven barbarian mini isnt gonna change that.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />It doesn't boggle me at all, for one simple reason - it is not true that all press is good press.  A bad movie or cartoon can cause people to choose to not play the game.  A dumb or low quality action figure isn't going to turn people on - it will turn people off.  Add to this the fact that we're not yet out of the current economic dip that will have put a damper on more chancey ventures, and you have the current position.So, WotC has to bide it's tiime, and wait until a quality use of the IP comes along.</blockquote>

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