D&D 5E D&D pateau-ing?

[LuisCarlos17f]

My opinion is D&D is not the unknown novelty, and Hasbro really wants to make money not only with the TTRPG market but mainly with licenced products. And why not? I bought "Monsters & Creatures" for my nieces, she is almost 11y and her younger brother only 5y. They are going to enjoing with the pictures.

And don't forget the no-English-speaker market. The action live movie will help a lot to promote the brand. Decades ago Batman was practically unknown by the no-fanboys in my land before the first Tim Barton's movie. Today Scarlet Witch is one of the most popular characters from marvel comics thanks Wandavision.

And later if standard fantasy starts to become boring by fault of the saturation? The "spin-off", the other lines with a special touch: Planescape, Dark Sun, Ravenloft+Innistrad, Spelljammer, Kaladesh, Red Steel/Savage Coast, New Capena. Oh! Now I was imagining an action-live version of Planescape with a lot of inspiration based in Jim Henson's Labyrinth.

 

[Parmandur]

At some point, an equilibrium has to be reached. But if it is a stable one, with new players replacing old, works for the hobby and Hasbro.

 

[bedir than]

Once a brand reaches a certain level of popularity people stop searching for it in general and start searching for elements of the brand in specific

 

[Oofta]

My opinion is D&D is not the unknown novelty, and Hasbro really wants to make money not only with the TTRPG market but mainly with licenced products. And why not? I bought "Monsters & Creatures" for my nieces, she is almost 11y and her younger brother only 5y. They are going to enjoing with the pictures.

And don't forget the no-English-speaker market. The action live movie will help a lot to promote the brand. Decades ago Batman was practically unknown by the no-fanboys in my land before the first Tim Barton's movie. Today Scarlet Witch is one of the most popular characters from marvel comics thanks Wandavision.

And later if standard fantasy starts to become boring by fault of the saturation? The "spin-off", the other lines with a special touch: Planescape, Dark Sun, Ravenloft+Innistrad, Spelljammer, Kaladesh, Red Steel/Savage Coast, New Capena. Oh! Now I was imagining an action-live version of Planescape with a lot of inspiration based in Jim Henson's Labyrinth.

We may be hitting a plateau where I live in the US midwest, that doesn't mean there isn't room to grow elsewhere. Whether those other markets have significant growth potential is something I can't begin to guess, but I could see other media and D&D book sales having mutual beneficial synergies (or some other market-speak to say that movies/TV shows could lead to people buying books).

I'm just happy I can find players for my home game.

 

[The Glen]

I refuse to believe the "dnd" is the more common abbreviation than "d&d". Are people that allergic to ampersands?

No but several sites don't allow it with hashtags

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

Maybe they players will stop to play, but they could buy other products as collectors, for example a funko figure of Vecna, and later a playmobil version of Vecna. (Yes, it sounds as a really fool idea, but we can't bet to be totally impossible in the future). Other products to be bought as gifts, for example Endless Quest gamebooks for children, or nieces, to keep the hobby.

 

[darjr]

Board game and several versions for dnd. It seems there is a similar peak, though muted, for the term board game. Does that mean board games have plateaued too? Maybe. But one thing, board games, as a group, I think, are way way more popular than D&D and this doesn’t reflect that.

 

[deganawida]

Board game and several versions for dnd. It seems there is a similar peak, though muted, for the term board game. Does that mean board games have plateaued too? Maybe. But one thing, board games, as a group, I think, are way way more popular than D&D and this doesn’t reflect that.

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Good catch!

 

[darjr]

Good catch!

Except I dunno what it means, really. I don’t think it means D&D has peaked.

 

[Stormonu]

Nothing too ground breaking here. I'm wondering how the movie will do? Probably more fun to try and predict if it will be successful and push the trend up, or suck and pull the trend down?

Movies always come at the end of a franchise’s popularity and are followed by a downswing. Just look at the GI Joe, Transformers and MLP movies.