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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8287780" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>I think it's unlikely they'll find it out-of-scope, for one particular reason:</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.archetype-entertainment.com/[/URL]</p><p></p><p>This is WotC's own sci-fi CRPG studio. Created from the ground up by WotC, based on the finest ex-BioWare employees, including "The Guy Everyone Really Liked The Writing Of From Mass Effect", Drew Karpyshyn.</p><p></p><p>Their self-proclaimed mission, from the page I linked:</p><p></p><p>To create the greatest science fiction roleplaying games in the world.</p><p></p><p>And it is obvious from context that they are talking about video games, no question. These people are not developing a TT RPG. But they are developing an IP (the concept art on the page is from the IP, which obviously has a 99% chance of "basically being Mass Effect" - a game series itself riding extremely high right now on the launch of a very successful remaster, which is, hilariously, the best-reviewed PC game released this year so far IIRC).</p><p></p><p>Now, if that game is remotely successful or looking good, it would obviously be a no-brainer for WotC to produce a TT RPG based on it. They won't need to pay much for art or IP development or work up lore because that'll all be done in the process of creating the video game. Even classes and races are likely to merely be there for the taking.</p><p></p><p>The video game is probably a minimum of 3 years out, and realistically might well be 4-5, as they're still building the team (they'll need like 200 people, they only have several dozen), but they clearly have concepts and if they make a game that does well, the cross-marketing possibilities are going to have to look pretty sexy to WotC.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8287780, member: 18"] I think it's unlikely they'll find it out-of-scope, for one particular reason: [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.archetype-entertainment.com/[/URL] This is WotC's own sci-fi CRPG studio. Created from the ground up by WotC, based on the finest ex-BioWare employees, including "The Guy Everyone Really Liked The Writing Of From Mass Effect", Drew Karpyshyn. Their self-proclaimed mission, from the page I linked: To create the greatest science fiction roleplaying games in the world. And it is obvious from context that they are talking about video games, no question. These people are not developing a TT RPG. But they are developing an IP (the concept art on the page is from the IP, which obviously has a 99% chance of "basically being Mass Effect" - a game series itself riding extremely high right now on the launch of a very successful remaster, which is, hilariously, the best-reviewed PC game released this year so far IIRC). Now, if that game is remotely successful or looking good, it would obviously be a no-brainer for WotC to produce a TT RPG based on it. They won't need to pay much for art or IP development or work up lore because that'll all be done in the process of creating the video game. Even classes and races are likely to merely be there for the taking. The video game is probably a minimum of 3 years out, and realistically might well be 4-5, as they're still building the team (they'll need like 200 people, they only have several dozen), but they clearly have concepts and if they make a game that does well, the cross-marketing possibilities are going to have to look pretty sexy to WotC. [/QUOTE]
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