What do you think WotC should be making?

[Jack of Shadows]

Hi Folks,

This is a spin-off of Psion's "WotC's in a rough patch" thread.

What roleplaying products do you think WotC should be producing over the next year or so from a business point of view? Note well that that this doesn't mean what you yourself want them to make nor does it mean 4.0 (not that that's going to stop several of you from saying it). Essentially what RPG products do think they should produce to achieve the most profit?

Jack

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

They need to expand their genre series out to cover a lot more stuff. We need a city adventures book, a swashbuckling adventure book, a political adventure book and, I'd suggest, even a dungeon-crawling adventure book. While an experienced DM might feel comfortable cooking up all of this on their own, 1) there are a lot of inexperienced DMs out there and 2) one would hope big time professional game designers would be able to go into more detail and come up with more ideas than the average guy could.

I'd also release related content. Where are the modules that spin out of Frostburn or Stormwrack? Why not have the miniatures line support the books more closely, especially when a new monster book comes out?

 

[philreed]

I'm probably gonna get slapped for this but I want to see:

Fiend Folio 2

 

[Jack of Shadows]

I'm probably gonna get slapped for this but I want to see:

Fiend Folio 2

Heh,

What on earth would you put in it? (Monsters, yes, shut up). Seriously what makes a Fiend Folio different from a Monster Manual?

Jack

 

[Sammael]

I'm probably gonna get slapped for this but I want to see:

Fiend Folio 2

I'd second this, if it were a deluxe book containing ALL evil outsiders featured in ALL 3.x books, with detailed notes on their societies, behavior, nature, etc.

 

[philreed]

What on earth would you put in it? (Monsters, yes, shut up). Seriously what makes a Fiend Folio different from a Monster Manual?

Well, maybe monsters.

To me, a Fiend Folio should be a book of aberrations, oozes, and outsiders. Weird, twisted monsters.

 

[Jack of Shadows]

They need to expand their genre series out to cover a lot more stuff. We need a city adventures book, a swashbuckling adventure book, a political adventure book and, I'd suggest, even a dungeon-crawling adventure book. While an experienced DM might feel comfortable cooking up all of this on their own, 1) there are a lot of inexperienced DMs out there and 2) one would hope big time professional game designers would be able to go into more detail and come up with more ideas than the average guy could.

I'd also release related content. Where are the modules that spin out of Frostburn or Stormwrack? Why not have the miniatures line support the books more closely, especially when a new monster book comes out?

Here's an interesting question,

Would Frostburn, Sandstorm, Stormwrack etc. sell more if their contents were added to the SRD? This would allow third parties to produce the support material you suggest is lacking.

Jack

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Would Frostburn, Sandstorm, Stormwrack etc. sell more if their contents were added to the SRD? This would allow third parties to produce the support material you suggest is lacking.

If they added the expanded environment rules, races, monsters and such, but with the WotC-specific world names filed off (no gods, in other words), like is in the core books SRD, I suspect they would.

 

[JVisgaitis]

Since they are all crazy with the II's ala DMG II and PHB II, if anything I'd like to see an Unearthed Arcana II. Unearthed Arcana is my all time favorite WotC product.

 

[Jack of Shadows]

Since they are all crazy with the II's ala DMG II and PHB II, if anything I'd like to see an Unearthed Arcana II. Unearthed Arcana is my all time favorite WotC product.

I think an Unearthed Arcana II is inevitable.

Jack