WotC's New Player Strategies - Thoughts?

[stevelabny]

a TELEVISION AD?

really?

wow.

can some forward this idea to the comic book industry?

 

[Campbell]

(caveat: I've never watched it, and there's Buffy d20 anyway, is there not?)

No, but Eden Studios did put together a pretty impressive roleplaying game, based on the Buffyverse. It's usually the game I run for first timers.

 

[VirgilCaine]

What do you think?

Hopefully we'll get more people into the game...always a good thing.

 

[Qualir]

a TELEVISION AD?

really?

wow.

can some forward this idea to the comic book industry?

This reminds me of when D&D used to advertise in DC comics all the time. The Legion of Superheroes almost always included panels of Sunboy playing holographic D&D and calling it D&D. This all ended when Marvel threatened to pull liscensing from TSR for supporting the competition.

I know, I am a geek. Really, I know.

 

[Goblyn]

A happy thought

Things like this give me a warm fuzzy feeling inside ... to me it doesn't matter what demographic Hasbro targets: attracting more gamers is definitely a good thing.

 

[VirgilCaine]

This reminds me of when D&D used to advertise in DC comics all the time. The Legion of Superheroes almost always included panels of Sunboy playing holographic D&D and calling it D&D. This all ended when Marvel threatened to pull liscensing from TSR for supporting the competition.

I know, I am a geek. Really, I know.

I have a G.I. Joe comic from the early 90's with an ad for "Dungeons and Dragons"...along with ads for Megaman III...

 

[Wolffenjugend]

They'd be much better off advertising in video game magazines or in game rental stores. That's D&D's competition and that's where they should be targetting their efforts.

Plus, they should play up the imagination angle to parents who are growing increasingly tired of having their kids sitting in front of the TV playing video games all day.

 

[Qualir]

Plus, they should play up the imagination angle to parents who are growing increasingly tired of having their kids sitting in front of the TV playing video games all day.

Amen, my brother.

D&D is a wonderful educational aid when used correctly, not just a means for destroying Christian values through the promotion of paganism and demon worship

 

[MerricB]

I'm busy transcribing the slides so that you don't have to spend time downloading lots of pictures.

Stage I - http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=80863
Stage II - http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=80868
Stage III - http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=80862

Cheers!

 

[Azlan]

Didn't TSR try to do this sort of thing with AD&D, back in the '80s, i.e. to make RPGs a truly mass-market hobby? And didn't TSR eventually come to the realization that there is a ceiling to the popularity of RPGs, a boundary which is defined by the time and effort it takes to play them?

It may seem nowadays that more people are open to heroic fantasy, what with the phenomenal popularity of the LotR movies. However, it still takes a whole lot of time, intelligence, and creativity to play RPGs, and as far as most people are concerned, it's just too much to ask.