What is the D&D brand?
I don't often go to EN World, but I did discover an interesting thread there that really offers some insights into how people perceive what D&D is. The poll is horribly constructed, but reading...
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Make that 20 or 21 years. 1st edition D&D was not prone to "supplement mania".MtbDMQ: MtbDM, what is good in life? A: To crush the PCs, see their character sheets pile before you, and hear the...
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Yes, but the box set was hardly out of the wrapper when the AD&D PHB came out.
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The "D&D Brand" is the i.p. It's the rights to the name and associated trade marks. "Brand' makes me think of marketing speak --- where one product or service is easily identified in the...
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Hmm.To me, D&D is the opportunity to be the hero, to accomplish deeds of renown without peer. To hew through villany and win a kiss from the princess. To earn riches beyond the dreams of avarice...
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Quote:The "D&D Brand" is the i.p. It's the rights to the name and associated trade marks. "Brand' makes me think of marketing speak ---
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Sorta, except most role-players call different role-playing games by their actual names. But there are at least as many different things you can DO with D&D as there are things you can do with,...
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Quote:I don't disagree with you. However, D&D the brand has become iconic and has entered the lexicon much the same way that people say Jell-o when they mean gelatin, or Kleenex when t...Read More
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For me, the D&D brand experience is sharing sword & sorcery adventure with friends at a table using a game with six underlying ruleset assumptions. Those ruleset assumptions (or "sacred cows"...
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Good question, and I'm in support of the Sticky. Okay, I've heard arguments about this for a long time. Some people say it's the setting (Greyhawk, forgotten realms, Dark sun, mystra,... etc) the...
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Welcome back, Ifuritasfan. Your absence has been conspicuous.**Aspiring Killer DM 221**
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Heh.. .I've been reading my copy of City of brass. It's a nice piece of work. I'm sort of indecisive though about which is better... the Robilar's guide to the City of brass by Kenzer and Co. or the...
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All the 2E "splatbooks" essentially offered this. L5R kind of does this, they have the main school, and starting skills, but you decide how you advance other skills, your attributes, etc...I think I...
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What the D&D Brand is to me:"Hey, I could act out my fave Grey Mouser stories... Chris could be Fahfrd. But I want it based in Vance's world of magic. This could be fun."Watching my Original...
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This is a great thread. With 4th ed on the horizon, I have been thinking about this a lot recently.I think the question is really, "what is the D&D experience?"To me, it is a lot of what Michael...
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Can we get rid of one of these duplicated threads? It has been sticked twice during the Great Yuku Harrasment of 2008.
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to me it's still AD&D Dungeon Master guide 1st edition and D&D is about classes and levels, humans and demi-humans, d20 to hit and save and skill roll, d4/d6/d8/d10/d12 for damage simple...
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I've really enjoyed reading this thread. So many good thoughts, memories, ideas and so on. I especially identified with what Sessestophelzine said. I started with Basic D&D but it was reading what...
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What is the D&D brand is like the difference between GURPS, HARP, Warhammer, Final Fantasy, Rolemaster, (every other PS2 RPG game), diablo, World of Darkness, *new* World of Darkness, Diablo 2...
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