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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Najo" data-source="post: 3993069" data-attributes="member: 9959">Aside from STREAMLINED rules (not "lite" rules) This is one of the most important elements right here. Personally, I thinking WOTC should offer DMs sanctioning, give them points for running adventures in game stores, school clubs and conventions. The points lead to getting special rewards and material that cannot be gained any other way. Cool swag. DMs should get ranked on the website by player report cards that are sent in from each event. Put some cool long term and short term carrots out there for too, and things that encourage itermediate to veteran players to become sanctioned DMs. The sanctioned DMs benefit from newly registered players and many different players rotating through their games. There could be values attached to the level of the event too. Conventions being the big score. Basically, something similar to the value, ranking and reward system that Magic the Gathering uses, but focused on the DMs more. They could also offer DMing classes or webinars, these could give the DM points too or increase his ranking somehow. This would solve alot of the issues with creating DMs, keeping them, and encouraging them to become better and go out and recruit new players with their games. Agree. Two bad movies and a low budget cartoon based on Dragonlance is not so good. Especailly in todays age when everything tied to IP is getting made into a movie that is cool-geek. Look what Transformers just did <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" /> All kinds of awesome there. Props to Dreamworks, Hasbro and Michael Bay. Not to mention the good work all the actors did. I am a huge Transformer buff, and I loved the comedy and human element more than the rest of the movie. Sam's mom was the best! Anyrate, D&D needs to cool up and come out with a 'on the edge' fantasy movie done in the same vein as Transformers (and G.I.Joe potentially) will be. I still have nightmares about the first D&D movie....terrible, terrible waking nightmares ... blehBTW, it is worth watching the DVD's extra stuff on the D&D movie if you are interested in seeing why it went to hell (aside from budget cuts). That director is the kind of individual that gives D&D players a bad name. As in, mazes and monsters 2, based on him as the main character, sort of bad name.</blockquote>

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