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<blockquote data-quote="Mouseferatu" data-source="post: 2804988" data-attributes="member: 1288">I'd postulate--though of course, I have no research to back this up--that none of those are reaching the essential markets, at least not to the extent they must to accomplish what we're talking about accomplishing.The Basic set isn't a complete game in and of itself. It's not widely marketed for kids, or available in toy stores, or advertised on TV, or supported by a popular cartoon or similar products. It doesn't matter merely what WotC releases; for purposes of this particular topic, marketing is the more valuable half of the equation.The D&amp;D for Dummies book is an interesting idea, but I don't see it bringing in a lot of the younger crowd. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />No, I'll say it again--a complete, fully self-contained, playable game, that can be opened and run, aimed at kids or teens, and with a marketing machine operating behind it, is the only thing that might really turn things around. Everything else is, I feel, a stopgap measure at best. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />(That said, I must give WotC credit. They're trying. It's just that it would take the resources of Hasbro, not just WotC, to really go all the way.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mouseferatu, post: 2804988, member: 1288"] I'd postulate--though of course, I have no research to back this up--that none of those are reaching the essential markets, at least not to the extent they must to accomplish what we're talking about accomplishing. The Basic set isn't a complete game in and of itself. It's not widely marketed for kids, or available in toy stores, or advertised on TV, or supported by a popular cartoon or similar products. It doesn't matter merely what WotC releases; for purposes of this particular topic, [i]marketing[/i] is the more valuable half of the equation. The [i]D&D for Dummies[/i] book is an interesting idea, but I don't see it bringing in a lot of the younger crowd. ;) No, I'll say it again--a complete, fully self-contained, playable game, that can be opened and run, aimed at kids or teens, and with a marketing machine operating behind it, is the only thing that might [i]really[/i] turn things around. Everything else is, I feel, a stopgap measure at best. :( (That said, I must give WotC credit. They're trying. It's just that it would take the resources of Hasbro, not just WotC, to really go all the way.) [/QUOTE]

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