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<blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 1036282" data-attributes="member: 6533">All right I hate to say this, but the biggest benefit to a big red box, would be if it could disguise DnD.It's the whole nintendo marketing themselves as a robot toy rather than a video game console thing.Or comic series repackaging themselves as graphic novels.Gets you into a wider variety of stores and in formates that are 'easier' for those stores to carry.&nbsp; A phenomena that is very literally true for graphic novels.&nbsp; Picking up comics scattered across the wide area of a large bookstore and then cramming them back into the narrow little racks they are relegated to is a terrible pain.Something that could be played as demo even by something as mainstream as Hastings would be nice.&nbsp;Though I remain unconvinced of that tactics effectiveness, it does convince my corporate masters that things are worth promoting if they are easy to promote.BTW, Hastings=40% off the 3.5s.And my corporate masters were much more aware of the issues surrounding WotC and 3.5 than I would&nbsp; ever have suspected them of being.There are some people paying attention to this niche market.Of course in books everything is a niche market, if I hear one more English grad student talking about popular culture as though it is a single entity I'm going to try selling them a romance novel and book of beat poetry.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dr. Strangemonkey, post: 1036282, member: 6533"] All right I hate to say this, but the biggest benefit to a big red box, would be if it could disguise DnD. It's the whole nintendo marketing themselves as a robot toy rather than a video game console thing. Or comic series repackaging themselves as graphic novels. Gets you into a wider variety of stores and in formates that are 'easier' for those stores to carry. A phenomena that is very literally true for graphic novels. Picking up comics scattered across the wide area of a large bookstore and then cramming them back into the narrow little racks they are relegated to is a terrible pain. Something that could be played as demo even by something as mainstream as Hastings would be nice. Though I remain unconvinced of that tactics effectiveness, it does convince my corporate masters that things are worth promoting if they are easy to promote. BTW, Hastings=40% off the 3.5s. And my corporate masters were much more aware of the issues surrounding WotC and 3.5 than I would ever have suspected them of being. There are some people paying attention to this niche market. Of course in books everything is a niche market, if I hear one more English grad student talking about popular culture as though it is a single entity I'm going to try selling them a romance novel and book of beat poetry. [/QUOTE]

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