Path: Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 03 May 2024 21:46:47 +0000 From: Spalls Hurgenson Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.dnd Subject: Stop trying to turn Dungeons & Dragons into a Marvel-esque cash cow – it won’t work Date: Fri, 03 May 2024 17:46:47 -0400 Message-ID: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 26 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-NfN08M1Rrttwdb28TZCBWlPgRXQFA4/UcQmz3AKlVJzdFhf5hswB3Hs5BZqhR5hNT50siWcm3hUZaVU!JzGUZyaiEP4WsIUs6asvQxxAB4Oa4F9eEwbtunUquFUAvntFMDOHTwJXb/c3KwoiA1XVUV0= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2112 Here's something to read: https://www.theguardian.com/games/2024/may/03/dungeons-and-dragons-wizards-of-the-coast Not that long of an article, but here's the short of it if you're lazy: Hasbro doesn't understand the D&D player base and is making a mistake trying to over-monetize the D&D hobby. It will never be as huge a market as Marvel or Star Wars because the game requires people to do more than just consume media or toys. Playing D&D requires effort - both on the part of the DM and the players - and the market of people who are willing to do that will always be small. But Hasbro thinks that if they shove enough tat in people's faces, D&D will somehow metamorphose into this immense media empire. But it won't; it will just alienate the fans, and tarnish the value of the brand. All of which sounds fairly familiar... but I guess it bears repeating (especially if it's better written than anything I've said and is posted in a forum that may be ever-so-slightly larger than the twenty or so readers here on rec.games.frp.dnd ;-P