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<blockquote data-quote="reddist" data-source="post: 276873" data-attributes="member: 5212">We need to go publicYo Curtis.... Interesting delima here.Most of the people I play with either own or work at a hobby/game store, so they're pretty well stocked and well informed.I think our biggest problem is that we are &quot;niche&quot; rather than &quot;mainstream.&quot;&nbsp; You don't see our books at Walmart.&nbsp; You rarely seem them at bookstores like B&amp;N or Borders, and when you do they are tucked in with the graphic novels.&nbsp; The mainstream bookstores MIGHT carry the core books, maybe some splat stuff, and some SSS hardcovers, and that'll be about it.&nbsp; If you want to seek out and purchase d20 material, you have to go to a specialist store.&nbsp; If you go to a specialist store, you generally know what it is you are looking of browsing for.&nbsp; You're already educated.The general public does not spend a great deal of time in game and hobby store.So.. how do we bring them in? How do we go from &quot;niche&quot; to &quot;mainstream?&quot;&nbsp; We have to bring our game to them.&nbsp;&nbsp; We have to make our game popular with the general public.The FR TV series might help, though I think the D&amp;D movie might have done more harm than good<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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp; Advertise... what I wouldn't give to see a movie starring Vin Diesel and Cameraon Diaz, and just have a shot of them playing D&amp;D.&nbsp; Product placement.&nbsp; Vin Diesel doing a WotC commercial, holding up a copy of the PH.&nbsp; Get Ryan Dacey on to NPR, doing an interview with Terry Garr about the OGL movement.&nbsp; Arrange interviews with the winner of the Campaign Setting Search on Letterman and Leno.&nbsp; Hell, get some of your more problematic groups on Springer, and incite them to throw dice at each other.&nbsp; Get WotC, Necromancer Games, TG/MEG, and S&amp;S to do radio spots when they release a new book.&nbsp; Locally?&nbsp; Volunteer to run D&amp;D &quot;lite&quot; games at libraries as part of some after-school kid's program.&nbsp; Advertise your group on college campuses.&nbsp; Start sanctioned clubs on campuses and recruit members during that &quot;rush-week&quot; right before classes start.&nbsp; Include a game of Frag or Giant Monster Rampage in your next team-builder at work.&nbsp; Invite your usual dinner guests over on the weekend and whip out the D&amp;D Box set (that starter game with the crap dice).&nbsp; got computer gamers you wanna pull in?&nbsp; Run a p&amp;p game of d20 Diablo II or d20 Everquest.&nbsp; Show them the joys of playing face to face with other humans.Hook 'em and reel 'em in!&nbsp; We gotta go mainstream.Who's got other suggestions?-Reddist</blockquote>

[QUOTE="reddist, post: 276873, member: 5212"] [b]We need to go public[/b] Yo Curtis.... Interesting delima here. Most of the people I play with either own or work at a hobby/game store, so they're pretty well stocked and well informed. I think our biggest problem is that we are "niche" rather than "mainstream." You don't see our books at Walmart. You rarely seem them at bookstores like B&N or Borders, and when you do they are tucked in with the graphic novels. The mainstream bookstores MIGHT carry the core books, maybe some splat stuff, and some SSS hardcovers, and that'll be about it. If you want to seek out and purchase d20 material, you have to go to a specialist store. If you go to a specialist store, you generally know what it is you are looking of browsing for. You're already educated. The general public does not spend a great deal of time in game and hobby store. So.. how do we bring them in? How do we go from "niche" to "mainstream?" We have to bring our game to them. We have to make our game popular with the general public. The FR TV series might help, though I think the D&D movie might have done more harm than good:) Advertise... what I wouldn't give to see a movie starring Vin Diesel and Cameraon Diaz, and just have a shot of them playing D&D. Product placement. Vin Diesel doing a WotC commercial, holding up a copy of the PH. Get Ryan Dacey on to NPR, doing an interview with Terry Garr about the OGL movement. Arrange interviews with the winner of the Campaign Setting Search on Letterman and Leno. Hell, get some of your more problematic groups on Springer, and incite them to throw dice at each other. Get WotC, Necromancer Games, TG/MEG, and S&S to do radio spots when they release a new book. Locally? Volunteer to run D&D "lite" games at libraries as part of some after-school kid's program. Advertise your group on college campuses. Start sanctioned clubs on campuses and recruit members during that "rush-week" right before classes start. Include a game of Frag or Giant Monster Rampage in your next team-builder at work. Invite your usual dinner guests over on the weekend and whip out the D&D Box set (that starter game with the crap dice). got computer gamers you wanna pull in? Run a p&p game of d20 Diablo II or d20 Everquest. Show them the joys of playing face to face with other humans. Hook 'em and reel 'em in! We gotta go mainstream. Who's got other suggestions? -Reddist [/QUOTE]

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