So assuming that D&D decides that the Essentials line is a good idea (and it might be after all, but I doubt it since the primary complaint leveled against the game is that it doesn't simulate enough stuff) then what the fuck is up with their marketing?
A ton of people don't even know that it's coming out. And I'm talking nerds. Now, D&D doesn't have the kind of money to even get a TV ad going, but don't stand there and tell me that you can't get a fucking poster in every Barnes and Nobles or a bump from Penny Arcade. Fuck, man, there are still websites advertising for Dungeons and Dragons Online and that shit is free.
Even the regular Wizards of the Coast website seem really shy about promoting it. Why is that? Are they afraid of angering the 4E fanbase? Bitch, people are already going to know that you're discontinuing their line in three months when your books don't come out. They're a segment of your market that is going to turn on you sooner or later. Why are you hobbling your advertising to keep them on board?
Are the people of Wizards of the Coast really this incompetent? Fuck!
Who is D&D Essentials supposed to appeal to?
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Josh Kablack wrote:Your freedom to make rulings up on the fly is in direct conflict with my freedom to interact with an internally consistent narrative. Your freedom to run/play a game without needing to understand a complex rule system is in direct conflict with my freedom to play a character whose abilities and flaws function as I intended within that ruleset. Your freedom to add and change rules in the middle of the game is in direct conflict with my ability to understand that rules system before I decided whether or not to join your game.
In short, your entire post is dismissive of not merely my intelligence, but my agency. And I don't mean agency as a player within one of your games, I mean my agency as a person. You do not want me to be informed when I make the fundamental decisions of deciding whether to join your game or buying your rules system.
