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WotC's Nathan Stewart: "Story, Story, Story"; and IS D&D a Tabletop Game?
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<blockquote data-quote="Pauper" data-source="post: 7667649" data-attributes="member: 17607"><p>I'm always left cold when I hear folks at WotC talking about 'the brand', because as a gamer, I'm not really interacting with 'the brand'. I'm playing the D&D game that is available to me. Right now, that is (despite the brand dude's assertion to the contrary) the tabletop game, which seems to be going great gangbusters locally as far as Organized Play stuff is concerned (I'm planning to hit yet another new store offering Adventurers League tonight), but a while back it was the weird D&D: Arena of War iPhone game, and before that it was the Lords of Waterdeep board game which I played to reassure myself the 'brand' wasn't dying as local groups running Living Forgotten Realms kept disappearing.</p><p></p><p>Listening to WotC brand guys is like listening to LucasFilm brand guys prior to the Disney buy-out; they realize they're sitting on a mountain of IP that other people are more than willing to pay rent to be able to make some trifling amount of money on, and they live in mortal fear that somebody is going to mess up badly enough to convince the really big IP tenants that this particular well has run dry.</p><p></p><p>Basically I get the feeling that the WotC brand guys want to be the Marvel brand guys when they grow up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pauper, post: 7667649, member: 17607"] I'm always left cold when I hear folks at WotC talking about 'the brand', because as a gamer, I'm not really interacting with 'the brand'. I'm playing the D&D game that is available to me. Right now, that is (despite the brand dude's assertion to the contrary) the tabletop game, which seems to be going great gangbusters locally as far as Organized Play stuff is concerned (I'm planning to hit yet another new store offering Adventurers League tonight), but a while back it was the weird D&D: Arena of War iPhone game, and before that it was the Lords of Waterdeep board game which I played to reassure myself the 'brand' wasn't dying as local groups running Living Forgotten Realms kept disappearing. Listening to WotC brand guys is like listening to LucasFilm brand guys prior to the Disney buy-out; they realize they're sitting on a mountain of IP that other people are more than willing to pay rent to be able to make some trifling amount of money on, and they live in mortal fear that somebody is going to mess up badly enough to convince the really big IP tenants that this particular well has run dry. Basically I get the feeling that the WotC brand guys want to be the Marvel brand guys when they grow up. [/QUOTE]
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