Re: [WW] How to make the D20 system better [A Little OT]

["Dereck" <darthdereck@hotmail.com>]

My "Local" gaming store in Portland has noticed that a lot of entry level 
gamers prefer the D20 system.  They have a problem selling the ones with 
other systems now.

They were stoked when they found out that there was gonna be a Deadlands 
D20.

I think a lot of the Bad feelings for mainstream gaming companies come from 
whe it was T$R, not WOTC.  They were on a lawsuit rampage that set the 
standard in letigiousness.



"I find your lack of faith disturbing."



>From: Allan Seyberth <darious@darious.com>
>Reply-To: weirdwars@gamerz.net
>To: weirdwars@gamerz.net
>Subject: Re: [WW] How to make the D20 system better [A Little OT]
>Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 15:18:54 -0600
>
> >True story:  I was sitting down reading through Wierd Wars at Gencon and
> >another player walked up to me to ask about it(he thought the cover 
>looked
> >cool).  I told him it was D20 system and he responded that it just must 
>be
> >D&D with guns and proceed to walk away.
>
>Yup - just like there was backlash against the HUGE number of card games
>that came out right after M:TG proved to be the run away success, there is
>the current backlash against anything D20.
>
>There is always a reaction against something that goes "mainstream" or
>becomes largely popular.  Take for example - Starbucks.  There is a
>reaction against Starbucks by those intellegencia who would NEVER be seen
>going in so common a place as Starbucks.
>
>Yet - the popularity of Starbucks grew out of those people who would NEVER
>be seen drinking anything as PLAIN as ground coffee.  They simply MUST have
>their double-mocha-half-skim-milk-half-2%-milk-snobachinos.
>
>(ahem - sorry)
>
>But the amount of money brought to the table by these folks - let's call
>them the gaming snobs (don't take it personally, I'm one myself) -  is far
>lower then the amount of money brought to the table by the unwashed masses
>stuck in a Socratic cave.  These are the people who will buy EVERY single
>D20 book out there - every one - on just the off chance that it may be
>useful in their games.  They'll tell themselves that even if they aren't in
>any games right now.
>
>And now we're back to companies needing to make a profit to survive.  With
>any luck, the proliferation of non-WotC D20 books will introduce people to
>the phenomenal talent and games that exist outside of WotC.  Perhaps,
>having gotten a glimpse of the light, they will turn away from the shadows
>and join the rest of us.
>
>And make Shane and Co. richer then kings to boot.    :-)
>
> >There is a growing group of gamers that think D&D is the worst RPG ever
> >made(Which I find really funny, I think 90% of gammers were introduced to 
>it
> >through D&D).  And they think that the D20 system is Evil incarnate.
>
>The backlash from the snobs is, IMO, not the big worry.  It will be the
>backlash by the D20'ers against the number of non-WotC companies putting
>out D20 books - they may get so tired of it that they stop buying anything
>outside of WotC publications.   In which case they will never see the
>awesome work done by PEG, Chaosium, Kenzer, and Green Ronin (to name the
>ones that I have familiarity with).
>
>It is this kind of backlash that has turned off a lot of people from even
>trying any new card games - as they are all content with Magic.
>
>-------------------
>Allan Seyberth
>darious@darious.com
>Deadlands fan site - http://www.darious.com/
>
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