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<blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 2092375" data-attributes="member: 14159"><p>The fields have laid fallow for quite a while, it's been almost a year since the last RPG book, projects they hyped up at Gen Con a few years back (Clone Wars Sourcebook, Ultimate Battlestations) are gaming vaporware, and Episode III is coming out with zilch in the way of RPG tie-in (what kind of Star Wars movie is this, without a tie-in to every conceivable market?).</p><p></p><p>Now reports are coming in that WotC is reconsidering and renegotiating the entire Star Wars RPG license. Bad tidings. </p><p></p><p>The thing that struck me is: WotC is owned by Hasbro, which George Lucas is a major shareholder. When WotC succeeds, Hasbro succeeds, and Lucas profits. So besides having the deepest pockets in the industry, they very much have the inside track with Lucasfilm on licensing Star Wars, any other company would be harder pressed to pay whatever Lucasfilm asked and it wouldn't have the market muscle nor the nice little side benefit of Mr. Lucas's stocks helping things out. So if WotC decides not to renew the Star Wars RPG license, will it most likely fall idle?</p><p></p><p>Star Wars the Roleplaying Game had one powerful hook when I was growing up, that is even more powerful now: it's not D&D, but it's close. My dad wouldn't let me play D&D in Junior High and High School because the Preacher said it was Satanic, but I could go and buy all the Star Wars RPG books I wanted (and play them with friends when I could), and when my dad saw them, I just said "They're Star Wars books" and that was it. Now, with the d20 Star Wars, it's even the same game system, and I'd imagine that more than a few kids out there are playing d20 Star Wars because their parents frown on D&D, but Star Wars "obviously" has nothing at all to do with D&D.</p><p></p><p>In the fine Star Wars Tradition: "I have a bad feeling about this. . ."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wingsandsword, post: 2092375, member: 14159"] The fields have laid fallow for quite a while, it's been almost a year since the last RPG book, projects they hyped up at Gen Con a few years back (Clone Wars Sourcebook, Ultimate Battlestations) are gaming vaporware, and Episode III is coming out with zilch in the way of RPG tie-in (what kind of Star Wars movie is this, without a tie-in to every conceivable market?). Now reports are coming in that WotC is reconsidering and renegotiating the entire Star Wars RPG license. Bad tidings. The thing that struck me is: WotC is owned by Hasbro, which George Lucas is a major shareholder. When WotC succeeds, Hasbro succeeds, and Lucas profits. So besides having the deepest pockets in the industry, they very much have the inside track with Lucasfilm on licensing Star Wars, any other company would be harder pressed to pay whatever Lucasfilm asked and it wouldn't have the market muscle nor the nice little side benefit of Mr. Lucas's stocks helping things out. So if WotC decides not to renew the Star Wars RPG license, will it most likely fall idle? Star Wars the Roleplaying Game had one powerful hook when I was growing up, that is even more powerful now: it's not D&D, but it's close. My dad wouldn't let me play D&D in Junior High and High School because the Preacher said it was Satanic, but I could go and buy all the Star Wars RPG books I wanted (and play them with friends when I could), and when my dad saw them, I just said "They're Star Wars books" and that was it. Now, with the d20 Star Wars, it's even the same game system, and I'd imagine that more than a few kids out there are playing d20 Star Wars because their parents frown on D&D, but Star Wars "obviously" has nothing at all to do with D&D. In the fine Star Wars Tradition: "I have a bad feeling about this. . ." [/QUOTE]
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