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Unlike shares, stakes can be used to kill Strahd.

The stakes held by owners in privately held companies are not the same as publicly traded shares. They operate in very different ways.

I didn't say you were criticizing me directly or implicitly. Again, you seem to be assuming and assigning motives with no actual...

Your hasty summaries about what WotC or TSR "care about" are nothing but speculation on motive, and in this case, a reduction of complex...

So you are speculating from the outside based on A-level theory and not any real inside knowledge or actual standing to speak to...

Wow, thanks for the info and thank you for writing some of my favorite DnD novels! edit: I really pulled from the Black Rose books when...

Rough numbers via Data Bridge, etc. Comics is around a $10 billion dollar global business (not including related media, etc) with the...

From 1984 to 1994, I don't believe so.* The average Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms novels were selling 100,000 copies or more (and...

Was there any settings back in the TSR days where the RPG outsold the novels?

Well, I have the whole line, but those were my two favorites of the novels. Knight of the Black Rose in particular has a special place...

The debates running throughout the thread on what Ravenloft as a setting or brand is supposed to be are not new. Not long after the...

The Ravenloft setting, starting with the original Ravenloft module was never gothic horror. It was from the beginning, a blend of gothic...

The Ravenloft fiction line was, initially, carefully coordinated with the game material. That changed after 1993 or 1994, but initially...

I'm not sure why they should be interested in B-movies their grandparents or even great grandparents cared about. If Ravenloft is going...

"Demonization of white American males"?? Okay.