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7 months ago ::
Nov 16, 2012 - 1:31AM
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TSR =/= WotC. A lot has changed since the 80's. The only problem D&D could have is that it doesn't make enough money for Disney's taste. But drawing on TSR stories to make a point is outdated.
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7 months ago ::
Nov 16, 2012 - 8:31AM
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TSR =/= WotC. A lot has changed since the 80's. The only problem D&D could have is that it doesn't make enough money for Disney's taste. But drawing on TSR stories to make a point is outdated.
Validity is not dependent on age, and bad decisions are ageless.
One dagger is a plot point. A thousand daggers is inventory. Thank you for disrailing this thread. 
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7 months ago ::
Nov 16, 2012 - 9:14AM
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Validity is not dependent on age, and bad decisions are ageless.
Perhaps so, but you are attempting to maintain validity with anecdotes of a different company ( usurpers) under different management (wo did not even like D&D) in a different era. There is little evidence of the management style of Lorraine Williams in WotC, Hasbro, or Disney. (I may not be pleased with the direction Next is going, but I do not get the impression that management hates the brand.)
Here are the PHB essentia, in my opinion: - Three Basic Rules (p 11)
- Power Types and Usage (p 54)
- Skills (p178-179)
- Feats (p 192)
- Rest and Recovery (p 263)
- All of Chapter 9 [Combat] (p 264-295)
A player needs to read the sections for building his or her character -- race, class, powers, feats, equipment, etc. But those are PC-specific. The above list is for everyone, regardless of the race or class or build or concept they are playing.
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7 months ago ::
Nov 16, 2012 - 10:01AM
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TSR =/= WotC. A lot has changed since the 80's. The only problem D&D could have is that it doesn't make enough money for Disney's taste. But drawing on TSR stories to make a point is outdated.
Validity is not dependent on age, and bad decisions are ageless.
But using bad decisions from a long time ago made be one company to predict future bad decisions made by a different company isn't likely to be accurate.
It's like saying that GM shouldn't come up with that neat elecric car design because just look what happened to New Coke.
D&D Next = D&D: Quantum Edition
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7 months ago ::
Nov 16, 2012 - 11:34AM
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But using bad decisions from a long time ago made be one company to predict future bad decisions made by a different company isn't likely to be accurate.
It's like saying that GM shouldn't come up with that neat elecric car design because just look what happened to New Coke.
You have little experience in business, don't you? And BTW, I was talking about decisions made by one entertainment company company to another. Your behavior has more in common with another person than you'd care t think.
(Methinks some people are insisting that one company can't do a thing because it would upset me. Companies don't care about your feelings, as long as they have enough customers to make money off of.)
One dagger is a plot point. A thousand daggers is inventory. Thank you for disrailing this thread.
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7 months ago ::
Nov 16, 2012 - 1:17PM
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I don't think the question is "could they" buy dnd, wotc etc.. The real question is "why would they ?". Let's also not forget that very recently Disney bought lucas arts from the man himself for nearly 6 billion dollars. So the odds of them buying another large company right now is pretty slim.
"Non nobis Domine Sed nomini tuo da gloriam" "I wish for death not because I want to die, but because I seek the war eternal"
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7 months ago ::
Nov 19, 2012 - 3:09PM
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I don't think the question is "could they" buy dnd, wotc etc.. The real question is "why would they ?". Let's also not forget that very recently Disney bought lucas arts from the man himself for nearly 6 billion dollars. So the odds of them buying another large company right now is pretty slim.
Hasbro owns the marketing rights to Star Wars. Disney has a very good reason to buy it.
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7 months ago ::
Nov 19, 2012 - 3:22PM
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I don't think the question is "could they" buy dnd, wotc etc.. The real question is "why would they ?". Let's also not forget that very recently Disney bought lucas arts from the man himself for nearly 6 billion dollars. So the odds of them buying another large company right now is pretty slim.
Hasbro owns the marketing rights to Star Wars. Disney has a very good reason to buy it.
I don't believe you are correct. When George Lucas first brought Star Wars to the masses FOX studios left him the rights to literally everything because they didn't believe in him or in his space epic. It's a long running joke in fact of "if only they had known". Disney didn't need to make any deals with Hasbro, they dealt only with the man himself and paid only the man himself.
Furthermore Lucas had a clause added to his will, in the case of his death, that Disney would inherit Star Wars and all rights to it. Again nothing about Hasbro in there.
Do you have a source ?
"Non nobis Domine Sed nomini tuo da gloriam" "I wish for death not because I want to die, but because I seek the war eternal"
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7 months ago ::
Nov 19, 2012 - 3:51PM
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I don't think the question is "could they" buy dnd, wotc etc.. The real question is "why would they ?". Let's also not forget that very recently Disney bought lucas arts from the man himself for nearly 6 billion dollars. So the odds of them buying another large company right now is pretty slim.
Hasbro owns the marketing rights to Star Wars. Disney has a very good reason to buy it.
I don't believe you are correct. When George Lucas first brought Star Wars to the masses FOX studios left him the rights to literally everything because they didn't believe in him or in his space epic. It's a long running joke in fact of "if only they had known". Disney didn't need to make any deals with Hasbro, they dealt only with the man himself and paid only the man himself.
Furthermore Lucas had a clause added to his will, in the case of his death, that Disney would inherit Star Wars and all rights to it. Again nothing about Hasbro in there.
Do you have a source ?
Hasbro has owned the rights to Star Wars toys since 1991. They also own the rights to Marvel toys until 2017. Something else Disney owns.
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7 months ago ::
Nov 19, 2012 - 5:34PM
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well I'll be, you're right ! Disney bought out the company that lucas arts was dealing with to produce the toys way back when. Thanks for the link Well then I suppose that answers my question, it would be like buying park place in monopoly to combo with the other one. Logical acquisition.
"Non nobis Domine Sed nomini tuo da gloriam" "I wish for death not because I want to die, but because I seek the war eternal"
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