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And who is this Keanu Reeves-looking clown they've got starring in it??

To all those who are complaining about the quality, this is a quote from the dndmovie.com website about the trailer:

Was It Unauthorized?? You betchya! Are the effects unfinished? Yup. Are those only temp sound effects? Right again. Truth is, it was never supposed to be posted on the net, because it shows the movie in an unfinished state. But it's done now and it can't be taken back, so we might as well wallow in it..heh heh.

(it came from here)

Well, it looks like the official site is slashdotted. Might as well spread the fun. If you really want more information check out dndmovie.com. Lots of photos, a few interviews, and generally a fun fan site which got some good behind the scenes information.

Nothing back from GenCon regarding the new D&D movie coming out in the next few months? I'd say *THAT* was one of the best things to come out of there.. For those interested, check out www.dndmovie.com.

Long ago (circa 1995) WOTC proclaimed a desire to not become "the biggest game company". Six months later they increased the price of m:tg.

This open sourcing of 3rd edition D&D just screams "devious marketing scheme".

TSR was not beaten by CCGs or WOTC or anybody: they beat themselves. They spent most of the 80's and the first half of tyhe 90's producing a lot of junk. They failed to realize that gamers are people of greater than average intelligence...we saw the crap and ignored it. Hence, TSR goes into the red and gets bought by a competitor. The rest of the time they spent pissing off their customers by zealously enforcing their intellectual property.

Most if not all the gamers I know consider the current incarnation of AD&D a joke, something you play when you want to laugh at the game. I think there is no chance in the forseeable future that WOTC/TSR will publish anything that will gain the respect of gamers. The movie is going to royally suck, and they hope to use it as a marketing hook for the new game.

As for the plan, the reason other RPG companies exist is because someone said, "I can do something better than D&D". Hoping to make the D20 system act like the Linux kernel is outright silly. Think about how many similarities there aren't between the two. Stablility? Extensibility? I think not.

D&D third edition will be a bandaged rehash of a game with a pretty face. Sure, it's simplified, but that's not going to make it better.

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