D&D Movie/TV Dungeons & Dragons Adventures is a 24-Hour Streaming Channel Launching in Summer

This summer, a new free streaming channel will be launched by eOne, the entertainment company owned by Hasbro. It will be ad-supported and available on multiple (as yet unspecified) platforms and feature a mix of animation, third party influencers, and actual play shows.

The old 1980s Dungeons & Dragons cartoon will be available, along with shows like:

• Encounter Party is based on an existing podcast and set in the Forgotten Realms.
• Faster, Purple Worm! Kill! Kill! is a comedy game stream in each episode of which a party of 1st level characters march to their deaths against deadly monsters.
• Heroes's Feast is a cooking/talk show.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I mean, WotC already owns a bunch from the past decade.

168 hours of content in a week is a lot. I'm pretty sure they don't have anything like that banked yet.

 

[Parmandur]

168 hours of content in a week is a lot. I'm pretty sure they don't have anything like that banked yet.

I mean, they sponsored a metric ton of shows over the past decade, from Force Grey to the Black Dice Society. I wouldn't actually bet against them having rights to that amount of material, though obviously they are putting out new stuff, too.

 

[BRayne]

I mean, they sponsored a metric ton of shows over the past decade, from Force Grey to the Black Dice Society. I wouldn't actually bet against them having rights to that amount of material, though obviously they are putting out new stuff, too.

141 episodes of Rivals of Waterdeep (each around 2 hours)

 

[Retreater]

...what...?

This is giving people a monetized platform, nothing about this speaks to "coming after" anybody or anything.

Take a look at the Games Workshop playbook.

 

[Parmandur]

Take a look at the Games Workshop playbook.

WotC has made it pretty clear that they enjoy free publicity: but they also enjoy ad revenue. Not in conflict.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Mike's a legit chef too

But is he a goliath?

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

If there is content by 3PP creators. What about royalties? Let's imagine the characters from a show become popular. How much with the licenced products?

Or the new ideas by 3PPs added to the lore of the D&D multiverse. For example let's imagine a story set in Kamigawa: Neon Dinasty where a group of teenage love playing a new MMO. But the troubles start because there is a new domain within the spirit-real based in the fiction. Then these characters are accidentally sent to that domain, living adventures "within a videogame" like the movie "Jumanji"(remake). The target was a kid-friendly show where the "violence was fake". Later other creators copy the idea and they add to their titles published in DMGuild.

Or "one-shot" animation videos. For example a mash-up version of M.A.S.K. set in Eberron. Or a cartoon based in "Gamma World".

* Ravenloft is perfect for a show about an AKP game.

* D&D as an electronic sport? For example two armies in a castle siege. Or some gameplay of "Fortnite: Save the World/Survive the horde".

 

[mamba]

If there is content by 3PP creators. What about royalties? Let's imagine the characters from a show become popular. How much with the licenced products?

all of these questions would still exist if they blew up on Youtube, they are not dependent on the channel

If others pick up on ideas / themes introduced by 3pp, then the question is whether and by how much this infringes (and whether they are interested in / able to do anything about it)

If they pick up ideas from WotC, then that is for WotC to decide whether they want it on the channel or rather write a cease and desist. You are ok with publishing on DMsG (provided it is for a setting available there)

 

[teitan]

Further proof that Hasbro/WotC has solved the cartoon license puzzle.

Probably purchased the rights as part of the licensing deals with Disney for Marvel, Power Rangers and Star Wars. Song & a dance in the 2010s when it was a low value IP.

 

[teitan]

So I guess they're going to be coming after streamers and independent content creators after all?
Man, I hate what this hobby has turned into.

Why do you assume that? Because they started a channel? That’s quite a logical jump.