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Here's a thought: they are about to do 10s or 100s of thousands of dollars worth of free marketing for YOU, if you can do these 2 things: 1. Be clearly better

Here's a thought: they are about to do 10s or 100s of thousands of dollars worth of free marketing for YOU, if you can do these 2 things: 1. Be clearly better than them. 2. Make sure the people they market to know there's a better alternative (you). If you can pull that off, you'd be a fool to sell. They're about to validate and promote your market.

mattmaroon 17y ago
I don't think that's really true where IP is involved. It's pretty easy to leverage the IP of those original games to make a more compelling alternative, even if it is otherwise inferior. He may not be able to be better than them legally. Niches like this don't get validated, they get owned.
- MicahWedemeyer 17y ago
  Exactly right. They don't need a lot of whiz-bang features as long as they have access to the IP content. Imagine trying to make a site about Harry Potter and then J.K. Rowling announces she's going to do the same. She'll be able to give the fans a lot more of what they want, even if the presentation is technically inferior. I've got a few ideas that might allow us to get legal access to that content as well, though. Still, I hate getting too specific on a particular RPG system, as there's a whole universe of systems and settings out there, and D&D is simply the most well known. Many of the others are much better, in my opinion.