{"id":12980,"date":"2012-01-09T13:17:14","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T18:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=12980"},"modified":"2020-02-13T13:32:15","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T18:32:15","slug":"dungeons-dragons-to-take-major-leap-of-faith-asking-the-fans-for-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/01\/09\/dungeons-dragons-to-take-major-leap-of-faith-asking-the-fans-for-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Dungeons & Dragons to take major leap of faith: asking the fans for help"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although I started playing role playing games in high school, I was never all that fond of the original Dungeons & Dragons<\/em> rule set. I tried several other rule sets, but ended up “rolling my own” based on a simple combat and magic ruleset from Steve Jackson Games<\/del> Metagaming<\/ins> (The Fantasy Trip<\/em>, based on the Melee<\/em> and Wizard<\/em> hex-and-counter minigames). I worked at one of the biggest gaming stores in Canada at the time, so I had lots of access to RPG resources. What mattered to me was the role-playing, not the ultra-fine distinctions between different kinds of pole-arms.<\/p>\n

Wizards of the Coast, the current owners of the D&D franchise, are struggling to make the game relevant again:<\/p>\n

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True believers have lost faith. Factions squabble. The enemies are not only massed at the gates of the kingdom, but they have also broken through. <\/p>\n

This may sound like the back story for an epic trilogy. Instead, it\u2019s the situation faced by the makers of Dungeons & Dragons<\/em>, the venerable fantasy role-playing game many consider to be the grandfather of the video game industry. Gamers bicker over Dungeons & Dragons<\/em> rules. Some have left childhood pursuits behind. And others have spurned an old-fashioned, tabletop fantasy role-playing game for shiny electronic competitors like World of Warcraft<\/em> and the Elder Scrolls<\/em>.<\/p>\n

But there might yet be hope for Dungeons & Dragons<\/em>, known as D&D<\/em>. On Monday, Wizards of the Coast, the Hasbro subsidiary that owns the game, announced that a new edition is under development, the first overhaul of the rules since the contentious fourth edition was released in 2008. And Dungeons & Dragons<\/em>\u2019 designers are also planning to undertake an exceedingly rare effort for the gaming industry over the next few months: asking hundreds of thousands of fans to tell them how exactly they should reboot the franchise. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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