| Abraham Frank |
I gave up on Dungeons and Dragons long ago. I am currently part of a group that play Warhammer FRP 2nd Edition, though I would prefer to be doing RuneQuest to be honest as the products from Mongoose are available as PDF's and Warhammer's products are not. Then again we scrapped the Warhammer setting and are creating our own settings with no major problems, which means we need few if any of the books after the first one LOL. No offense to BI, GW and company but the setting is just too depressing to stick with. Anyway I have never been a die-hard D&D player, I started gaming when Champions came out in 1981 because I was a comic book fan and stayed with the Hero system for 10 years when the group collapsed. Then I stopped playing for years and only got back into it because I was turning into a hermit. Heck the only reason I have an RPGA membership was because I was at a convention that didn't let you play in any of the games unless you were an RPGA member, so it was sign up for a free membership or don't play. I am digressing however, if you want my advice though it is skip D&D 4.0, by the time people get hooked they will roll out 4.5 or 5th edition, so why waste your time also look into expanding the number of systems your products can be used for. As an example Final Redoubt Presses Campaign Setting Echoes of Heaven can be purchased in seperate versions for any of the following four system D20 OGL, Hero Games, Rolemaster or HARP. I doubt that it would be hard to expand the system options for your products without increasing the cost by offering variant copies using the same setting but rules for every "supported" system. Why not expand rather than limit yourself to just D&D? At least that is my 2 cents on the subject.