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Post by ritt on Jan 4, 2017 21:20:30 GMT -6
If you were "Solid gold toilet"-level wealthy what expensive gaming-related thing would you buy, commission, or do?
Just morbidly curious.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2017 22:13:15 GMT -6
I would buy Hasbro and put hundreds of games back in print. I would make moves that would, I believe, move my Hasbro past Lego and Mattel. Try POD personalized Monopoly, with computerized manufacturing there is no reason that Monopoly, Risk, Game of Life and many other board games could not be sold in personalized versions to millions of people. That I believe could be the tip of a very big iceberg.
Oh and I love see if I could buy out the ERB estate (lock, stock and trademarks) and a few other things and publish a new version of OD&D with all of the flaws that make it special and a special supplement for new refs/players. How about licensed Frazetta art among other things. Also reprint the first printing as is with the appropriate licenses to do so. Just clean up most of the typos, I say most because I would leave things like Liar instead of Lair alone in that original version. A world building supplement based not on tables to generate things, but specific advice on MIY (Make it Yourself), how to depart from tradition and think outside the box and take your game to someplace unique.
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Post by foxroe on Jan 5, 2017 11:41:55 GMT -6
I'm with PD: buy the rights to D&D and all the old OOP stuff... and reprint it! Oh, and I'd hire a bunch of CAREBEARS and SPREAD A LOT OF LOVE off of this thing. (OK, maybe I'd just buy the table... or several)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2017 12:19:21 GMT -6
PG-13, gentlemen. PG-13.
Also, I'd buy a real-life Millenium Falcon and fly to work with it, every day.
- Like, really. No world peace, no ending world hunger. Just a flying car.
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Post by Falconer on Jan 5, 2017 16:26:09 GMT -6
Reprint the old West End Games Star Wars books as-is, and commission new products, continuing the line.
Reprint the old Iron Crown Enterprises Middle-earth books with stats converted to AD&D, and commission new products, continuing the line.
TSR… Where to begin? Quality (not faux-deluxe) reprints of everything relating to OD&D/Holmes, and at least the major AD&D releases (MM1, PHB, DMG, DM Screen, WoG, Rogues Gallery, FF, DDG, MM2, UA) and the classic modules (A1-4, B1-4, C1-2, D1-3, EX1-2, G1-3, I1, L1, N1, Q1, S1-4, T1-4, U1-3, UK1, WG4-6, X1-2). Greyhawk Castle by Jeff Talanian, maybe some other Greyhawk stuff, but otherwise the OSR is doing just fine continuing the line.
Judges Guild (via Goodman) and the new Chaosium seem to be doing just fine with reprints, too. (The latter with regard to RuneQuest Classic… Seems I would have to make a Call of Cthulhu Classic reprint happen myself.)
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Post by tkdco2 on Jan 5, 2017 19:56:13 GMT -6
I'd buy a small island, build weird architecture, bring in strange plants and animals, and get a bunch of LARPers to do a Carcosa (geoffrey's setting) game, or movie, or both.
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Post by foxroe on Jan 5, 2017 19:59:24 GMT -6
Have you seen what passes for PG-13 these days? And carebears!? Well at least it wasn't "My Little Pony". I am definitely buying that rating system and doing something about it... everything has its price... everything. Mu, ha, ha, ha!
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Post by scalydemon on Jan 5, 2017 20:14:35 GMT -6
woodgrain box set in really nice shape all the domesday books all Strategic reviews 1e 1st print phb in fine condition some cool old TSR original posters like the ones that someone brings to display at NTXRPG con some original Tramp and Otus art original copy of palace of the vampire queen in nice shape all the wee warriors stuff complete MERP collection nice custom exotic hardwood gaming table
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Post by machfront on Jan 5, 2017 21:19:15 GMT -6
Buy the rights to Swords & Wizardry, wipe the current version of S&W:WB off the face of the Earth and replace it with the far superior White Box: Fantastic Medieval Adventure Game, take S&W Core back to it's third or second printing, and keep the Otus cover for Complete with the upcoming awesome interior art plus adding a more C&C-like optional Ranger, a better (optional) thief (since all thieves is all iterations of D&D suck hard) and the SR versions of the Bard and Illusionist classes to the book.
Have B/X professionally edited into a single volume and have it printed in old-school hardbacks like the 1EAD&D books and shove it into every game, book and toy store in the known world.
I'd put the money up for a Fafhrd and Grey Mouser film series and I wouldn't allow them to cast the usual little girls they now seem to cast in men's roles. (I mean seriously, have you seen some of these guys in recent action films?)
Then I'd hire someone to make sausage cheese balls for me night and day because sausage cheese balls are awesome.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2017 7:00:21 GMT -6
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Post by Finarvyn on Jan 6, 2017 9:33:11 GMT -6
No, it had nothing to do with Frazetta. Rafe was commenting on a link posted by foxroe. Please try not to over-react to situations if you don't know what is going on with them because all it does is throw gas on a file which has been moderated and taken care of already. I'd prefer to keep this place civil and your post was the antithesis of that.
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Post by Malcadon on Jan 6, 2017 10:28:57 GMT -6
I would buy-out Warner Brothers (with DC and Merrie Melodies), Disney (with Marvel and Star Wars), a number of estates to iconic characters (ERB, REH, C. L. Moore, Dille, esc.) and others, and throw it all out to the public domain. Or at the vary least, buy-out Congressmen, like the harlots that they are, to change or repeal the copyright laws that give companies an insane longevity to their holdings.
Basically, I want people to be able to freely publish comics, cartoons, movies, RPGs, merch and the like with iconic characters like John Carter, Conan, Jirel of Joiry, Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon, Superman, Batman, Bugs Bunny, Mickey Mouse, Star Wars, Star Trek, and so on, and so forth.
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Post by bea on Jan 6, 2017 12:18:59 GMT -6
I would run a huge RPG convention. On Mars.
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Post by cadriel on Jan 6, 2017 14:22:24 GMT -6
If money was no object ... There are a couple of things, I guess. First is that I'd try and get the rights to Castle Greyhawk from Gail Gygax, I guess. And then have it published in a few forms. You'd be able to buy a tome with photographic reproductions of Gary's maps and notes as an art book, like the Voynich Manuscript that I have. And then there would be a version of the castle cleaned up and formatted for actual at-the-table play, done after the style of Maze of the Blue Medusa. I'd also see about doing the same with Dave Arneson's Blackmoor maps, and Phil Barker's Tékumel underworld. There's quite a bit that could be done with history of gaming, really. I'd love for there to be an RPG museum in Lake Geneva with original maps and miniatures and game books and APAzines and so forth. If possible it would be both a museum and a comprehensive (non-circulating) library with full runs of all the APAzines and gaming rarities and such. Since I have unlimited funds in this scenario, I also employ increment full-time to run the place and work on his updated history. I'd also sponsor an oral historian to put together a comprehensive oral history of gaming from 1970 up until 1977 or so while folks are still with us. Outside of this massive historical undertaking, I'd get the license to Dune and a really great designer to write a roleplaying game (unfortunately my first choice, Erick Wujick who did Amber, is no longer with us).
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Post by machfront on Jan 6, 2017 15:55:34 GMT -6
Also... acquire a full run of Alarums and Excursions then hire a huge team of folk to scan, clean-up and pdf-ify every last one of them and dump the entirety on RPGNow/DriveThru and sell them for $0.00.
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Post by Finarvyn on Jan 6, 2017 16:17:10 GMT -6
Also... acquire a full run of Alarums and Excursions then hire a huge team of folk to scan, clean-up and pdf-ify every last one of them and dump the entirety on RPGNow/DriveThru and sell them for $0.00. There is a thread on this somewhere. I think you can buy PDF copies for $2 each or something like that. My problem was always trying to figure out which ones to buy... EDIT: odd74.proboards.com/thread/11726/alarums-excursions-pdf-back-issues
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Post by ffilz on Jan 6, 2017 17:59:45 GMT -6
Hmm, with unlimited money... Probably wouldn't spend that much of it on gaming...
I would buy all those A&E PDFs... I'd buy all the Far Future Enterprises CD-ROMs I don't already have.
I might try and buy a few oddities that I don't have, maybe some of the Traveller stuff that isn't on the FFE CD-ROMs.
I'd buy a building for gaming and LEGO so those activities would not have to be so present in our home...
The rest of the money would be spent on family stuff...
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Post by scottenkainen on Jan 6, 2017 18:33:36 GMT -6
Like others, I would buy the D&D brand and TSR's whole backlog and make every product there ever was for it POD, right away. I'd restart TSR and hire back everyone who ever worked for the old TSR before 1984 who wanted back in the saddle. If they wanted to, they could produce new game products. Or they could just sit around the offices all day and game. They deserve it. I'd then start to restock the entire TSR + Judges Guild line up through 1983 into toy stores, at affordable prices. Then I'd start releasing more collectors sets, each more lavish than the last, for those who can afford extravagance. The collectors sets would include Kuntz's El Raja Key Archive and identical products from Gary Gygax's and Dave Arneson's personal notes. Then I'd market the heck out of D&D's comeback. TV commercials, traveling promoters who could push the educational value of gaming to school systems, merchandising. I would produce a D&D anthology TV series (and start with adapting my Castle Greyhawk webcomic). And...I'd slip my H&H product line in with the rest of the Old School stuff.
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Post by DungeonDevil on Jan 6, 2017 18:34:00 GMT -6
I would take a hammer, knock out all my teeth, then have them completely replaced with 24-carat, solid-gold d20s.
...or pay lifetime stipends to 4 to 7 people to serve as fawning, sycophantic gamers who never find fault in my DMing style. I will call these employees "friends".
After further reflection: find a site (like a decommissioned underground nuclear silo) and turn it into a dungeon...with crypts, catacombs, Egyptian-style tombs and a maze. "Look out! It's a gorvil!!!"
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2017 7:52:49 GMT -6
No, it had nothing to do with Frazetta. Rafe was commenting on a link posted by foxroe. Please try not to over-react to situations if you don't know what is going on with them because all it does is throw gas on a file which has been moderated and taken care of already. I'd prefer to keep this place civil and your post was the antithesis of that. I read all three posts and mine was one of them. There was no link in any of them at the time I posted which is before Rafe made his comment. I saw nothing there that warrants a PG-13 caution. Neither CAREBEARS nor SPREAD A LOT OF LOVE was a link at any point in time. As for over reacting, the comment as it was and as it is worded is directed at all three of us that posted prior to Rafe's post. Having done nothing wrong in my original post, I was not out of line taking offense at a blanket rebuke. Also what is uncivil about my post?
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Post by codeman123 on Jan 7, 2017 9:26:57 GMT -6
I would probably open up a "gaming clubhouse" for the few people i enjoy gaming with and just pay them to game every day. Then i would do a 1-1 scale waterloo game because hell if didn't have to work i would actually have the time to do that. Besides gaming i would open up my own music studio and record artists that i think deserve a break and go to all the places i have always wanted to such as battlefields in europe etc.
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Post by Finarvyn on Jan 8, 2017 5:52:34 GMT -6
Having done nothing wrong in my original post, I was not out of line taking offense at a blanket rebuke. Also what is uncivil about my post? Since you did nothing wrong in your original post, there was no need for you to react to someone else being moderated. There is nothing uncivil about your post, but its content has nothing to do with the rest of the thread because no one had objected to Frazetta. If you have additional complaints about this, we should handle it by PM instead of here in the thread.
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Post by foxroe on Jan 8, 2017 8:12:05 GMT -6
Having done nothing wrong in my original post, I was not out of line taking offense at a blanket rebuke. Also what is uncivil about my post? Since you did nothing wrong in your original post, there was no need for you to react to someone else being moderated. There is nothing uncivil about your post, but its content has nothing to do with the rest of the thread because no one had objected to Frazetta. If you have additional complaints about this, we should handle it by PM instead of here in the thread. Yikes! Sorry guys.
I was feeling a bit frisky (read that as "clownish") in my original post and made references to members of an illegal profession and the use of an inhalable narcotic. It was, in retrospect, inappropriate for these forums - even in jest. Rafael edited my post and substituted the aforementioned Caniforms of Unusual Passion and Spreading of Emotional Fervor, likely before most folks read the original post.
It's all good. I joked about it with Raf in my follow-up post, so now it's water under the bridge. I apologize for causing any trouble.
<continues to feverishly scratch away at lottery tickets>
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Post by Chainsaw on Jan 8, 2017 10:39:58 GMT -6
Assuming money's no object, build a castle in the mountains, run a game company from it. Pay for all my peeps to quit their jobs and game the days away.
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Post by jdn2006 on Jan 9, 2017 15:26:26 GMT -6
I would not buy a bunch of oversized companies and waste my life riding herd on them nor riding herd on people hired to manage them. But I would buy up the rights needed to do the publishing others talk about, managing which would probably be killer: "I SAID SCAN AND EDIT IT, NOT PUT YOU so-and-so personal opinions into it!" Make new stuff, besides reprinting old stuff.
And then enjoy myself with do-it-yourself projects, some charities, find a cure for cancer, bring peace to the entire world... But most importantly, avoid "minting so much gold/money" that it becomes worthless except for the metallic properties it has...
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Post by skars on Jan 10, 2017 13:25:14 GMT -6
I'd probably hire all my friends and family to do as they please most the time, but the one requirement would be to be available for game nights.
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Post by makofan on Jan 11, 2017 9:26:43 GMT -6
I would purchase the copyright of Magic Realm, get Steve Hamblen to add his original rules, pay Karim a handsome sum of money for his redesign work, and re-publish the game with sturdy pieces and Karim's artwork
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2017 9:42:02 GMT -6
I would purchase the copyright of Magic Realm, get Steve Hamblen to add his original rules, pay Karim a handsome sum of money for his redesign work, and re-publish the game with sturdy pieces and Karim's artwork I loved that game but it could definitely use some streamlining. Anyone know how much it would cost, just in production, to produce a board game? There are so many board game produced each year now that it can't be all that expensive.
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Post by skars on Jan 11, 2017 12:18:17 GMT -6
I would purchase the copyright of Magic Realm, get Steve Hamblen to add his original rules, pay Karim a handsome sum of money for his redesign work, and re-publish the game with sturdy pieces and Karim's artwork Is Karim still up to his awesome renditions of classic games? iirc he did a fantastic Merchants of Venus about 10 years back.
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Post by makofan on Jan 11, 2017 12:25:05 GMT -6
And of course it is Richard Hamblem, not sure where I got Steve from
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