Master prediction for 5E D&D.

Torko · Post by **Torko** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 5:05 pm

Every word will be a doublepair of compoundwords.

Psychic Robot · Post by **Psychic Robot** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 5:15 pm

Torko wrote:Every word will be a doublepair of compoundwords.

hmmm

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ScottS · Post by **ScottS** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 5:55 pm

Part of the business model was "sell plastic shit", so game development may hinge on commodities (expensive oil = go "gridless" and/or card-based, cheap oil = continue with something 3e/4e-ish).

Not sure how boardgames are going to overlap with the RPG at all, other than it gives them another avenue to sell more (cheaper, unpainted) plastic, and there might be a financial push to go entirely in that direction, since Ravenloft/Ashardalon were products that no one actually hated (not sure how well they sold overall at $65 a pop, but I haven't seen any negative reviews of them).

Josh_Kablack · Post by **Josh_Kablack** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 6:06 pm

ScottS wrote:, since Ravenloft/Ashardalon were products that no one actually hated (not sure how well they sold overall at $65 a pop, but I haven't seen any negative reviews of them).

Ask Dragon_Child to give you his take on Ravenloft and you'll see some hatred.

Ravengm · Post by **Ravengm** » Mon Jun 06, 2011 5:00 pm

Honestly, I can see a card-based approach working. If it was WoF-style where you drew a hand of 5 options every turn from a deck, that would be pretty cool.

Knowing Wizards it'd probably just end up as another way to sell booster packs though.

Wrathzog · Post by **Wrathzog** » Mon Jun 06, 2011 7:05 pm

4E already kind of tried that. They sold Class "Decks" and there were boosters in the form of supplements. I've only ever seen one person buy those and that guy was seriously the laziest fucking dude I've ever known in my life. Too lazy to save himself the ten seconds of effort he'd have to put into making his own cards

Anyhow, D&D isn't Magic. There is no reason to even consider that the same marketing strategies that work with magic will work with D&D.

ScottS · Post by **ScottS** » Mon Jun 06, 2011 8:13 pm

Closer analogy would be those Fortune Cards (which gave you powers in addition to your class abilities, and which you were allowed to build a "sideboard" with), but I have no clue saleswise how those went.