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<blockquote data-quote="Delta" data-source="post: 3307810" data-attributes="member: 40269">I think for the sake of D&amp;D I would like to see close-to-none. But here's what I really want to say...I think that WOTC pursuing a digital initiative for D&amp;D is, in business lingo, &quot;not in their core competency&quot;. D&amp;D is not fundamentally something played on a computer, it's a pen-and-paper game, more like chess or monopoly or something. WOTC looking enviously at World of Warcraft and trying to position D&amp;D somewhere between the two (WOW and Monopoly) will be untenable for them, possibly the worst of both worlds. Worst case scenario, I can imagine D&amp;D unplayable without a computer, but also without the always-available in-depth play of WOW. Result: I'm on a computer anyway, may as well play WOW.The D&amp;D Character Generator with the 3.0 PHB is a pretty good example. As we all know, they were promising full generators, magic items, mappers, monster &amp; template creators, etc. But in 5 years they couldn't make it happen and scrapped it (WOTC is not intrinsically a software company).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Delta, post: 3307810, member: 40269"] I think for the sake of D&D I would like to see close-to-none. But here's what I really want to say... I think that WOTC pursuing a digital initiative for D&D is, in business lingo, "not in their core competency". D&D is not fundamentally something played on a computer, it's a pen-and-paper game, more like chess or monopoly or something. WOTC looking enviously at World of Warcraft and trying to position D&D somewhere between the two (WOW and Monopoly) will be untenable for them, possibly the worst of both worlds. Worst case scenario, I can imagine D&D unplayable without a computer, but also without the always-available in-depth play of WOW. Result: I'm on a computer anyway, may as well play WOW. The D&D Character Generator with the 3.0 PHB is a pretty good example. As we all know, they were promising full generators, magic items, mappers, monster & template creators, etc. But in 5 years they couldn't make it happen and scrapped it (WOTC is not intrinsically a software company). [/QUOTE]

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