From: Wayne Shaw (shadow@qedbbs.com)
Date: Thu 12 Aug 1993 - 13:57:56 EEST
curtiss@netcom.netcom.com (Curtis Shenton) writes:
> Actually I still think we need a brand new rules set rather than just an
> add on companion of optional rules. We need to appeal to new gamers, not
> just RQ fanatics. It's going to be hard to sell new gamers on
> RQIII+companion, "All you need for RQ is this rules set, and since no
> one likes these rules you'll also want to buy this companion set of
> optional rules and stuff. "
>
I dunno, Curtis: it's worked for various other people's products over the
years. The biggest problem I see is that RQ is still too pricey, even by
modern standards. Making people by the pricey rules AND an additional
booklet may be too much.
I'm not sure RQ4 would have necessarily gotten more RQ players than this
anyhow; I suspect that in all honesty, it's too late in the day to win
back many of the people who've gone to other systems. Just properly
supporting the game instead of letting it stagnate will do more for it
than anything else, at least if the situation with the Hero system is a
good comparison. The biggest problem with RQIII, for all my bitches with
the rules, was that nothing came out for it. This didn't matter much to
me, but it did to some people. Most of the stuff before the newer
Gloranthan material was really substandard. While I wish that someone
would do support material for it of some quality outside a Gloranthan
setting, I think good Gloranthan material is a better draw for the game
than the cruddy non-Gloranthan material that was coming out before.
Not, mind you, that on a certain level I'm not a bit unhappy with the
backing away from RQIV; if nothing else, if it didn't change too much
from the current approach, it would have been useful to ME. But that's a
basically selfish motivation.
Wayne.
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