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<blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 7658822" data-attributes="member: 37579">I think WotC has just *finally* learned they can support D&amp;D the brand without having to tie every single accessory to the RPG, that they can get the same or greater amount of profits by targeting different groups than just tapping the one audience for all that they're worth.&nbsp;&nbsp; They were never going to bring back the magazines. They stopped having the staff where they could reliably do the magazines and the game several years ago. If the magazines do come back, it will likely be a licenced product like they were during 3e. And that's unlikely as few people are going to buy the rights to make magazines anymore. It was a struggle even when Paizo was doing it, and the market is worse now. Harbro never sells anything.Even IF they were to sell things, they'd never part with the very, very lucrative WotC (aka Magic the Gathering). And even IF they sold things, and IF were willing to sell part of WotC, they'd never sell D&amp;D because things like movie and book rights are too valuable.The best you/we can hope for is that they licence D&amp;D the RPG to another company. Which they're pretty much doing anyway with the storylines. But even IF WotC was willing to licence D&amp;D the RPG completely out to another company, there's no way that company would be able to release more than a couple books per year. And there'd almost certainly be a drop in quality and increase in price.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jester David, post: 7658822, member: 37579"] I think WotC has just *finally* learned they can support D&D the brand without having to tie every single accessory to the RPG, that they can get the same or greater amount of profits by targeting different groups than just tapping the one audience for all that they're worth. They were never going to bring back the magazines. They stopped having the staff where they could reliably do the magazines and the game several years ago. If the magazines do come back, it will likely be a licenced product like they were during 3e. And that's unlikely as few people are going to buy the rights to make magazines anymore. It was a struggle even when Paizo was doing it, and the market is worse now. Harbro never sells anything. Even IF they were to sell things, they'd never part with the very, very lucrative WotC (aka Magic the Gathering). And even IF they sold things, and IF were willing to sell part of WotC, they'd never sell D&D because things like movie and book rights are too valuable. The best you/we can hope for is that they licence D&D the RPG to another company. Which they're pretty much doing anyway with the storylines. But even IF WotC was willing to licence D&D the RPG completely out to another company, there's no way that company would be able to release more than a couple books per year. And there'd almost certainly be a drop in quality and increase in price. [/QUOTE]

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