I'm guessing not, since the race/class division was firmly in place even by 1979, when AD&D came out. Pretty much everyone looks at "dwarf as a class" as being a little silly now. (And as I recall, the "dwarf class" was basically a slightly different Fighting-Man and the "elf class" was basically a slightly different Magic-User.)
If I worked at Wizards, I'd talk them into re-releasing Spelljammer
Hey this could become a drinking game.
If I worked at wizards.... I would rerelease the Dungeons And Dragons Miniatures range and maybe work out some sort of cross promotion with Games Workshop
edited 20th Jan '12 7:34:08 PM by joeyjojo
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I would also love for them to bring back D&D Minis (just with a more reasonable release schedule). GW are such jerks that they'd never agree to anything like that, though. (They have great franchises, but the company itself is awful, awful, awful.)
Obviously, I would have them bring back Planescape and Greyhawk.
I'm an action figure collector (Transformers if you gotta ask) and the price for 40k minis has always baffled me. Heck, one thing good about Wizards being owned by Hasbro: Minis at a decent reasonable price I'm willing to pay.. (and the 4e minis are gorgeous)
edited 21st Jan '12 12:55:03 AM by Ghilz
You obviously never saw Dusty's chess set.
It wasn't the little representational pieces you normally see. The pieces were solid metal models. The knight wasn't a little horse, he was a knight. With a lance.
edited 21st Jan '12 1:04:38 AM by Exelixi
Mura: -flips the bird to veterinary science with one hand and Euclidean geometry with the other-I've seen blinged out chest sets before. I've seen a "Great North" themed chess sets. Rooks are Igloos. Knights are polar bears, pawns are seals. Heck, my favorite Gaming store in montreal, has an entire section for chess sets. Including This beauty
◊ and This one
◊. As well as a set made out of glass and crystal (No online pic...)
edited 21st Jan '12 1:17:42 AM by Ghilz
So that's why the horses's 'hat' in ironclaw was the 'honorable warrior guy'!, Knightsuse horses.
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edited 21st Jan '12 5:10:43 AM by joeyjojo
hashtagsarestupidIf Wot C wants to actually expand their profit margin, they should freely release content, but then REALLY focus on the Dn D Minis side and battlemaps side. The more tokens and physical merchandise-rather than created content-they can incite players to buy, the better their bottom line.
This being said, new campaign settings are better for them than just adding new rules, because they give new things players will have to buy. Imagine a Spelljammer setting's miniature set!
edited 21st Jan '12 9:36:22 AM by TheyCallMeTomu
That is actually a pretty sound business strategy Tomu.
I take back what I said earlier, there is no way you could be working for wizards
hashtagsarestupidHeh. Battlemats companies are already numerous. And since battlemats can be used across many systems, there's less temptation for Wizards to go into those.
Not that I'd not like a wizard battlemat that works with dry-erase markers. Need more Dry-erase based mats.
edited 21st Jan '12 10:22:44 AM by Ghilz
The thing is, the aforementioned strategy would be embraced by Hasbro, who is used to selling toys-it would make Dn D into the TMNT tv show basically.
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If you ask me (which no one did, but what ever) Minis is where the real money is. Just look at how well GW is doing for itself.
Books simply can't hold the market. There is a built in psychological limit to how much people are willing to spend on rule content, and even with megaupload down people are going to pirate a sizeable chuck of your IP anyway. Information wants to be free and all that.
However you can't download figurines, and unlike digital content (and to a lesser degree, actual books) people seem surprisingly willing to fork over large sums of cash for physical items as long as they have been taught to value 'craftsmanship' and have a emotional connection to the source material.
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Where's the fun in that.