I have been thinking about the future of digital market, and hypothesis some titles fusing both. How? Let's imagine a physical product, a miniature with a NFC (Near Field Communication) microchip. With this miniature there is a digital added content, one is a PDF about a TTRPG, for example a monster with stats, for different editions or systems, or a PC race, or a subclass, but also other thing, a skin for a videogame, or furnitures to decorate a base with "housing", or a pack of armours and clothing.
Any inconvenient? The miniature being used by different members, for example children classmates, or cousins and brother within a family. Or to need login in two different accounts, one for the PDF and the other for the videogame DLC.
Possible adventage? The miniature keeps the value for the collector market. If the server of that videogame are closed the PDF still is useful, even if there are changes with a new edition, or the DLC could be for a metaverse, for example a skin used for different titles within that metaverse.
For example a figure for Drizzt DO'Urden+Guenhwyvar(stats for 2nd AD&D, 3.5, 4th and 5Ed), with a PDF, but also a skin for Fornite and other for Dark Alliance.
Is it a fool idea? Maybe, but some fool ideas can work if you fix the necessary changes.
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I like the idea of NFC miniatures, I dead enjoyed Skylanders and their uses in the various games, or similarly Nintendo's Amiibo's uses in a number of games. I don't think D&D minis are going anywhere any time soon, but then I imagine third parties are the bigger producers of minis than Wizards of the Coast, so I don't see minis being made for every single monster along with their PDF statblocks. I think Monster, Magic and Item cards do that job without the costliness to time and money that minis would require. Some collector minis might work with this idea in mind though.
I think it's a good idea, at least conceptually, but I don't see it happening. Augmented Reality (AR) cards maybe, but not miniatures.
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Zero is the most important number in D&D: Session Zero sets the boundaries and the tone; Rule Zero dictates the Dungeon Master (DM) is the final arbiter; and Zero D&D is better than Bad D&D.
"Let us speak plainly now, and in earnest, for words mean little without the weight of conviction."
Yes, an amiibo, but with different digital content.
Or a collectable card with an incorporated microchip, and this with a secon pdf of a webcomic.
Other idea is videogames make a lot of money, but the titles lose value very fastly.
Or a limite serie comic/graphic novel with added digital content, like comics Fortnite-Batman or Fornite-Marvel Comics.
And who would buy it? Maybe collectors of "old" franchises, for example a steampunk version of "Ghostbusters" in Ravenloft, or a (mash-up) Spelljammer version of Disney "Planet of Threasure", grungs (humanoid frogs) based in "Anphibia" cartoon. Miniatures/cards of Legend of Zelda, the OPs, the monsters of Sunset Overdrive, heroes and vampires from the cominsoon "RedFall", or D&D Capcom arcade... Hasbro is very interested into to sell licence merchandicing, and the other companies accept it to make money with old IPs.
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I have been thinking about the future of digital market, and hypothesis some titles fusing both. How? Let's imagine a physical product, a miniature with a NFC (Near Field Communication) microchip. With this miniature there is a digital added content, one is a PDF about a TTRPG, for example a monster with stats, for different editions or systems, or a PC race, or a subclass, but also other thing, a skin for a videogame, or furnitures to decorate a base with "housing", or a pack of armours and clothing.
Any inconvenient? The miniature being used by different members, for example children classmates, or cousins and brother within a family. Or to need login in two different accounts, one for the PDF and the other for the videogame DLC.
Possible adventage? The miniature keeps the value for the collector market. If the server of that videogame are closed the PDF still is useful, even if there are changes with a new edition, or the DLC could be for a metaverse, for example a skin used for different titles within that metaverse.
For example a figure for Drizzt DO'Urden+Guenhwyvar(stats for 2nd AD&D, 3.5, 4th and 5Ed), with a PDF, but also a skin for Fornite and other for Dark Alliance.
Is it a fool idea? Maybe, but some fool ideas can work if you fix the necessary changes.
So, basically an amiibo?
If you're not willing or able to to discuss in good faith, then don't be surprised if I don't respond, there are better things in life for me to do than humour you. This signature is that response.
I like the idea of NFC miniatures, I dead enjoyed Skylanders and their uses in the various games, or similarly Nintendo's Amiibo's uses in a number of games. I don't think D&D minis are going anywhere any time soon, but then I imagine third parties are the bigger producers of minis than Wizards of the Coast, so I don't see minis being made for every single monster along with their PDF statblocks. I think Monster, Magic and Item cards do that job without the costliness to time and money that minis would require. Some collector minis might work with this idea in mind though.
I think it's a good idea, at least conceptually, but I don't see it happening. Augmented Reality (AR) cards maybe, but not miniatures.
Zero is the most important number in D&D: Session Zero sets the boundaries and the tone; Rule Zero dictates the Dungeon Master (DM) is the final arbiter; and Zero D&D is better than Bad D&D.
"Let us speak plainly now, and in earnest, for words mean little without the weight of conviction."
- The Assemblage of Houses, World of Warcraft
Yes, an amiibo, but with different digital content.
Or a collectable card with an incorporated microchip, and this with a secon pdf of a webcomic.
Other idea is videogames make a lot of money, but the titles lose value very fastly.
Or a limite serie comic/graphic novel with added digital content, like comics Fortnite-Batman or Fornite-Marvel Comics.
And who would buy it? Maybe collectors of "old" franchises, for example a steampunk version of "Ghostbusters" in Ravenloft, or a (mash-up) Spelljammer version of Disney "Planet of Threasure", grungs (humanoid frogs) based in "Anphibia" cartoon. Miniatures/cards of Legend of Zelda, the OPs, the monsters of Sunset Overdrive, heroes and vampires from the cominsoon "RedFall", or D&D Capcom arcade... Hasbro is very interested into to sell licence merchandicing, and the other companies accept it to make money with old IPs.