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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="DMZ2112" data-source="post: 7667880" data-attributes="member: 78752"><p>Well, first of all, I totally agree that's what Nathan is saying, because that's what everyone at Wizards has been saying. Once again, APs and web articles and nothing else = not news. Sorry, FRCS fans, for the eighty hojillionth time, /you're boned/.</p><p></p><p>But I would caution anyone from using this article to support any /theories/ about where tabletop D&D is "going." At the risk of throwing shade on Mr. Stewart (who I'm sure is a nice guy and good at his job, previous employment in EA management notwithstanding), <em>this is a Forbes interview with a branding executive</em>. You are not the audience of this article. This article is primarily designed to make other executives sit up and say, "Hey, I want to partner with that. That sounds like a well-oiled gravy train."</p><p></p><p>He says it himself -- D&D is not a tabletop game. Of course D&D is a tabletop game, and of course he knows that. According to his Twitter feed, he was just /dungeon mastering/ it for a bunch of industry folks a few weeks ago. But the other branding execs don't care about that. They want to know that the brand is not permanently and irretrievably bound to books. Books are 20th century. Kindle is where the money is, "everybody" knows that. As soon as he starts talking about books, they want to know if he's got a Kindle solution. And he doesn't. So he paraphrases. 'D&D is not a tabletop game.' Maybe his audience is smart enough to recognize the hyperbole; maybe they're not (I know what my money's on). Fundamentally, they don't care, and that's how you should read this article.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DMZ2112, post: 7667880, member: 78752"] Well, first of all, I totally agree that's what Nathan is saying, because that's what everyone at Wizards has been saying. Once again, APs and web articles and nothing else = not news. Sorry, FRCS fans, for the eighty hojillionth time, /you're boned/. But I would caution anyone from using this article to support any /theories/ about where tabletop D&D is "going." At the risk of throwing shade on Mr. Stewart (who I'm sure is a nice guy and good at his job, previous employment in EA management notwithstanding), [I]this is a Forbes interview with a branding executive[/I]. You are not the audience of this article. This article is primarily designed to make other executives sit up and say, "Hey, I want to partner with that. That sounds like a well-oiled gravy train." He says it himself -- D&D is not a tabletop game. Of course D&D is a tabletop game, and of course he knows that. According to his Twitter feed, he was just /dungeon mastering/ it for a bunch of industry folks a few weeks ago. But the other branding execs don't care about that. They want to know that the brand is not permanently and irretrievably bound to books. Books are 20th century. Kindle is where the money is, "everybody" knows that. As soon as he starts talking about books, they want to know if he's got a Kindle solution. And he doesn't. So he paraphrases. 'D&D is not a tabletop game.' Maybe his audience is smart enough to recognize the hyperbole; maybe they're not (I know what my money's on). Fundamentally, they don't care, and that's how you should read this article. [/QUOTE]
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