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<blockquote data-quote="BC1" data-source="post: 6167235" data-attributes="member: 6749169"><p>1) WotC did bring &quot;Baldur's Gate&quot; into the PnP world - they put out a whole &quot;Volo's Guide to Baldur's Gate II&quot;, one of the first books they produced after getting the D&amp;D franchise and one of the last of the 2E books.&nbsp; So, they never completely ignored it.&nbsp; &quot;Neverwinter Nights,&quot; &quot;Icewind Dale&quot; and &quot;Torment,&quot; those are different stories.&nbsp; 2) This wouldn't be the first time WotC piggybacked their PnP material to a video game.&nbsp; Does no one remember the massive push behind &quot;Neverwinter&quot; (novels, source book, Encounters adventure) - years before the game itself even came out?&nbsp; 3) Yes, Bioware created fan-fic.&nbsp; Actually, they created a campaign that everyone could play and TSR could use for their purposes if they saw fit.&nbsp; In other words, TSR outsourced writing an adventure.&nbsp; For them not to use it is silly (again, see the other video games mentioned above).&nbsp; 4) So what if they haven't gone back to this well in a while?&nbsp; How many of you heard of &quot;Guardians of the Galaxy&quot; before the movie was announced?&nbsp; Pretty good series from the 80's, revived in the 90's, revived again in the 2000's, now subject of a major motion picture.&nbsp; See, happens all the time.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="BC1, post: 6167235, member: 6749169"] 1) WotC did bring "Baldur's Gate" into the PnP world - they put out a whole "Volo's Guide to Baldur's Gate II", one of the first books they produced after getting the D&D franchise and one of the last of the 2E books. So, they never completely ignored it. "Neverwinter Nights," "Icewind Dale" and "Torment," those are different stories. 2) This wouldn't be the first time WotC piggybacked their PnP material to a video game. Does no one remember the massive push behind "Neverwinter" (novels, source book, Encounters adventure) - years before the game itself even came out? 3) Yes, Bioware created fan-fic. Actually, they created a campaign that everyone could play and TSR could use for their purposes if they saw fit. In other words, TSR outsourced writing an adventure. For them not to use it is silly (again, see the other video games mentioned above). 4) So what if they haven't gone back to this well in a while? How many of you heard of "Guardians of the Galaxy" before the movie was announced? Pretty good series from the 80's, revived in the 90's, revived again in the 2000's, now subject of a major motion picture. See, happens all the time. [/QUOTE]

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