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Dire Bare reacted to JLowder's post in the thread D&D General How Much D&D Stuff Is There Anyway? Part 4: Novels with
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Absolutely. All important points. And before the TSR purchase, WotC had tried fiction both internally and as a license, with results... -
Dire Bare reacted to JLowder's post in the thread D&D General How Much D&D Stuff Is There Anyway? Part 4: Novels with
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@Echohawk lots of great information here! Thanks for quantifying all the numbers, too. Great stuff. I'll read through again when I get... -
Dire Bare reacted to JLowder's post in the thread D&D General How Much D&D Stuff Is There Anyway? Part 4: Novels with Like.
No. The deal meant TSR was getting paid on ship rather than on sale for everything, not just fiction. The company overproduced and...
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Dire Bare reacted to JLowder's post in the thread D&D General How Much D&D Stuff Is There Anyway? Part 4: Novels with Like.
Hasbro also has limited experience with the book trade, which operates on different rules than the sale channels they are used to...
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Dire Bare reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up? with Like.
There are no huger LotR fans than me (my user name is the Quenya name I chose when I took a Tolkien language course in College, I own...
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Dire Bare reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up? with Like.
Well, also being well reviewed and making money.
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Dire Bare reacted to Morrus's post in the thread D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up? with Like.
Maybe some people like it. I do. Always remember that your personal opinions are not universal truths. It can be hard to get out of...
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Dire Bare reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up? with Like.
Right, and if you look over the results of objective metrics it is doing fine.
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Dire Bare reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up? with Like.
The critical consensus on Rotten Tomato and Metacritic for both seasons is positive, and per Amazon they have made nearly $400 million...
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Dire Bare reacted to Sacrosanct's post in the thread D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up? with Like.
Granted, I'm only speaking from my perspective as a project manager, but IME, every project has a goal of what is considered a success...
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Dire Bare reacted to Zaukrie's post in the thread D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up? with Like.
Couldn't disagree more with this post. Lots of people liked WoT from the beginning.
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Dire Bare reacted to Sacrosanct's post in the thread D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up? with Like.
Really, only the people in charge of the show can say if it failed or not because they are the ones who set the metric for what is a...
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Dire Bare reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up? with Like.
Deciding for other people why the are okay with something (as in, "because fantasy") is rude, and apt to be incorrect. And annoying...
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Dire Bare reacted to Gradine's post in the thread 2024 D&D Core Rulebooks Off to "Strongest-Ever" Start for D&D Books with Like.
If memory serves, Professor DM was one of those YouTubers citing BookScan data wildly out of context to create clickbait videos about...
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Dire Bare reacted to AlViking's post in the thread 2024 D&D Core Rulebooks Off to "Strongest-Ever" Start for D&D Books with Like.
Companies try out products that don't succeed all the time, software projects, in particular, fail on a regular basis.. Unless it has a...