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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7775450" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>Dungeons & Dragons, despite its mild exposure in the public eye, lacks any sort of intellectual property which is well known outside of gamers.</p><p></p><p>To this day, it's most well known intellectual property is probably 'The Dungeons & Dragons Cartoon'. Actually having an 'Tomb of Horrors' sequence in 'Ready Player One' would have been huge, but in practice the sequence though it is a major plot point in the novel, gets handwaved even in the novel. It doesn't exist at all in the movie, so you don't have a ready fan base of movie watchers eager to get the 'Tomb of Horrors' experience. </p><p></p><p>Similarly, while 'the Demogorgon' and the fact that they play D&D might be a plot point in 'Stranger Things', it's actually unconnected to any D&D intellectual property. The monster of the story may be famous, but the Demogorgon of D&D has no meaningful public exposure. Nor does the game in 'The Community' actually meaningfully convey any sort of D&D experience that you'd want to make a property out of. Rather than promoting the intellectual property of D&D, all these things have basically promoted their own intellectual property by name dropping D&D.</p><p></p><p>The best chance of a D&D amusement park ride remains, "The Dungeons & Dragons" ride from the old cartoon.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7775450, member: 4937"] Dungeons & Dragons, despite its mild exposure in the public eye, lacks any sort of intellectual property which is well known outside of gamers. To this day, it's most well known intellectual property is probably 'The Dungeons & Dragons Cartoon'. Actually having an 'Tomb of Horrors' sequence in 'Ready Player One' would have been huge, but in practice the sequence though it is a major plot point in the novel, gets handwaved even in the novel. It doesn't exist at all in the movie, so you don't have a ready fan base of movie watchers eager to get the 'Tomb of Horrors' experience. Similarly, while 'the Demogorgon' and the fact that they play D&D might be a plot point in 'Stranger Things', it's actually unconnected to any D&D intellectual property. The monster of the story may be famous, but the Demogorgon of D&D has no meaningful public exposure. Nor does the game in 'The Community' actually meaningfully convey any sort of D&D experience that you'd want to make a property out of. Rather than promoting the intellectual property of D&D, all these things have basically promoted their own intellectual property by name dropping D&D. The best chance of a D&D amusement park ride remains, "The Dungeons & Dragons" ride from the old cartoon. [/QUOTE]
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