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Yes. I first saw them call themselves that rather than others point it that way.

it's definitely cheaper now than when Beyond was separate. Then it was full price for both.

I'm getting the starter set

Final stake - my impression of Brandon was due to the bookcloaks who would parade this and his other frustrations around constantly. Turns out I was manipulated by a fandom driven by anger and hate.

Yes, but there's not a significant source of licensing or entertainment revenue right now.

Yes, but that's down from the down for several quarters, including massive drops previous.

Possibly relevant https://www.npr.org/2025/08/07/nx-s1-5489813/dungeons-dragons-dimension-20-critical-role-madison-square-garden-stadium

Licensing last quarter was down 3% and continues the multi-quarter trend of downward movement so far that they stopped mentioning BG3 as an earner at all.

Building out the social system rather than the simple on-off switch they used would be excellent. Tiny chapter on the two sports Using their modern microadventure technique to demo magic school in D&D concepts Eberron would be a great model to follow for it

I don't think in 2018 the D&D brand earned Hasbro more than 300 million (over 70 in Q1 over 80 in Q2), which is what it is on track for in 2025 without adjusting for the massive oversaturation during the holiday season - which will include Stranger Things boxed set and I expect the return to big...

With MtG revisiting Strixhaven I'm hoping we'll get an update to that D&D setting. Some of that book was really well done (all the non-adventure stuff)

Except sales are up from the release of 5e 2014. D&D is making more money for Hasbro than ever before and it is selling better in year one than the first several years of 2014

Yes, Shawn Levy has taken over the former P+ project but now at Netflix. Related, the Duffer Brothers (the other part of Stranger Things leadership) are exiting Netflix for Paramount+ (which still holds the movie rights and has said that they going to nearly double the amount of movies they put...

He and Teos (Alphastream) had discussions about leaning into environmental dystopia and iirc having the PCs be heroes rather than an everyone is awful, including the PCs tone.

Anyway, I'm rather excited for plotweaver as a 5e adjacent system with more emphasis on social