Recent content by Parmandur

Pfui!

He edited it to do so after it was pointed out as he said he would in the thread, sure. The initial version of the post did not.

Thing is, Hasbro pulled D&D out of the book channel, and now sell it as a game...dofferent stream. Amazon does not catsgorize new D&D books as "books". But really what WotC is focused on now is direct sales, apparently D&D Beyond physical & digital copies are like 66% of sales now.

I mean, it was kind of a great year for the D&D team...?

Absolutely, which is why I agree with the broader point of the original article. Still, this is the first time in 3 or 4 years where we have known so little, so it is a seachange.

I get that, for sure. Here is the summary for the D&D Direct in 2024: https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1807-d-d-direct-recap-a-look-at-two-forgotten-realms?srsltid=AfmBOopLHmuCAYPyN1N2hbU3Wdb-DeJuu7tGKJr8Pwts08vHuNgHAJBy

I agree with your overall point 100%, you are quite correct particularly across the full sweep of 5E. However, in August 2024, WotC did drop a D&D Direct, where they mentioned that 2025 would see a two book Forgotten Realms Setting and a Dragon-themed Adventure anthology...so we did know most...

A common theme in his ouvre.

Similarly, "doom" here is an archaicism, meaning more generally "decree" or "administrative decision", but Tolkien knew to a modern English ear it sounds badass and ominous.

Not an error, just a bit of an archaic prose flourish.

Terrible marketing, and positioned right between John Wickand Super Mario Bros., perhaps the two worst things for a D&D movie to try and be counterprogrammong for. Also, the pandemic wasn't quite over yet: I did not go and see something in the theater for a full year and a half after HAT dropped.

Yeah, and that is against their business model. Forge of the Artificerstyle book seems likely, rewriting Strahd does not seem likely.

Doubtful: they are already actively selling Curse of Strahd with new ads on social media. With Beyond, they don't need to do reprints that way.

That’s a solid "Maybe", though either way I do think such a book is likely.

Well, no, in this case it is not just empty platitudes, the studio and franchise models are serious and different approaches to hierarchical organization that actually mean something. He is well out of the game, but this is what Mike Mearls had to say on these boards about WotC going back to the...