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<blockquote data-quote="Ibrandul" data-source="post: 7322406" data-attributes="member: 6871736"><p>Today I had a thought that's so crazy it just might be true: what if "Broadway" is an official D&D adventure path set in the world of "Stranger Things"?</p><p></p><p>A few months ago Mike Mearls made an offhand comment that's stuck with me (in a video on RollPlay with him, Koebel, Colville and Mercer). In the context of a discussion of his development process, he said something along the lines of "if I were working on a licensed product, I would ..." and then went on to explain a bit about how developing a licensed product would differ from their usual D&D development process.</p><p></p><p>At the time I though he might mean something like the "Magic: The Gathering" setting pdf's they've released. But, since that's also a WotC IP, it's not exactly "licensed," is it?</p><p></p><p>And it just so happens that one of the actual IP licenses that we know WotC has access to -- since Hasbro announced several months ago that they had purchased the tabletop gaming license for the show, and now they've already released three quickie (read: low development time) games for it (a branded Ouija, a branded Monopoly, and a dumb little "Eggo" card game) -- is filled with explicit D&D references, and arguably has contributed more to the "normalizing" and popularizing of D&D than any other non-game pop-culture phenomenon. There's just no way Hasbro would sit on that license without trying to make a D&D product out of it!</p><p></p><p>This could also explain why there are two "adventure" books coming in the fall (if indeed these are both adventure books, which I agree is not certain based on the info we have available). Because of course, if WotC is going to release an adventure book based on an IP license in the fall, they're probably also going to want to release a second adventure book the same season (Catacomb), this one set within the existing D&D cosmology.</p><p></p><p>The more I consider this, the more plausible it seems...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ibrandul, post: 7322406, member: 6871736"] Today I had a thought that's so crazy it just might be true: what if "Broadway" is an official D&D adventure path set in the world of "Stranger Things"? A few months ago Mike Mearls made an offhand comment that's stuck with me (in a video on RollPlay with him, Koebel, Colville and Mercer). In the context of a discussion of his development process, he said something along the lines of "if I were working on a licensed product, I would ..." and then went on to explain a bit about how developing a licensed product would differ from their usual D&D development process. At the time I though he might mean something like the "Magic: The Gathering" setting pdf's they've released. But, since that's also a WotC IP, it's not exactly "licensed," is it? And it just so happens that one of the actual IP licenses that we know WotC has access to -- since Hasbro announced several months ago that they had purchased the tabletop gaming license for the show, and now they've already released three quickie (read: low development time) games for it (a branded Ouija, a branded Monopoly, and a dumb little "Eggo" card game) -- is filled with explicit D&D references, and arguably has contributed more to the "normalizing" and popularizing of D&D than any other non-game pop-culture phenomenon. There's just no way Hasbro would sit on that license without trying to make a D&D product out of it! This could also explain why there are two "adventure" books coming in the fall (if indeed these are both adventure books, which I agree is not certain based on the info we have available). Because of course, if WotC is going to release an adventure book based on an IP license in the fall, they're probably also going to want to release a second adventure book the same season (Catacomb), this one set within the existing D&D cosmology. The more I consider this, the more plausible it seems... [/QUOTE]
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