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Games take a while to produce. Any game developing now would be better focused on Next Gen systems, so Playstation 6 rather than 5. I wonder if the development timeline was looking poor for these 5 games. So far we only have the new Dark Alliance as an example of what WotC digital efforts are...

They are offering nothing new other than taking a cut of profits and a badge? This isn't a huge revenue bonus to Hasbro and just seems like it would piss off the biggest producers who expand D&D's audience. Short sighted and foolish.

Ahhh the sky is falling DOOM! Doom, I say! D&D will be a bigger presence in toy stores, apparel, and breakfast cereals. There is gold in them thar hills or at least electrum. D&D will likely start to have diversification of product offerings in DDB/Digital. DMs are the bulk of purchasers so we...

Conan as an IP still has legs. FunCom has leased the digital rights for a long time. From the Age of Conan MMO to Conan Exiles (which just got an update yesterday), to the bizarre but fun retro Conan Chop Chop. The R.E. Howard stories are still in print. There is a new show coming out for...

Good topic. I have used all of these in different settings over the years. Apotheosis is fun. Especially with long-lived and immortal races, having people who knew a god before their ascension would be fascinating. Imagine an ancient elven seer who talks about Grognar, hero-god of competition...

To start, I love Spelljammer. I love the 2E box Set. I even loved the 3E Spider Moon write-up in Dragon. There is a lot of good in the 5E set, but there are some negatives. SJ5E has fewer pages than comparable products. Spelljammer has 192. Von Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, Ravnica, and Theros...

Well, the WiSC is not a savage. You need something to be an appetizer before the main dish. Prior to this, the WiSC used the salad course to attract the rabbit. Economy of motion.

The teaser image is similar to D&D:HAT

The movie poster with the full cast is always disappointing. The teaser poster with the gold dragon ampersand and the silhouettes of the party is a much more iconic poster than this. I still prefer the early teaser focusing on the monsters. Honor Among Thieves Monster Poster

The Red is Themberchaud so his Rubenesque physique is part of the character. I am pleased that we are not getting Smaug 2.0 for the red. The black dragon design is, for good or bad, the iconic black dragon for D&D now. Hopefully, there is depth to the dragon to overcome your dislike of the...

Mimics, lurkers, trappers, and cloakers (oh my!) are just the tip of the weird in the D&D baseline. The room is going to kill you from all angles and the lone humanoid in the room is a doppelganger who will replace one of your hirelings once rescued. Don't look too hard at magic items like the...

I am with you on the deceptive trailers thing, but a good indication is when they start to include new footage in trailers rather than reshuffle the same scenes. There was a lot more Hugh Grant in this footage release and it seems to hold up with the other released footage, plus the new...

Most of my campaigns have an element of weirdness to them, even Greyhawk. Spelljammer lends itself to cranking up the weirdness to 11. Dark Sun is a different kind of weird from regular fantasy settings. Eberron is pretty weird too. Weird is kind of hard to quantify though. You can have farm...

Glad to hear that creating new scenarios for the board game seems easy to do. That was my biggest worry is that the game could be fun but limited in replayability. Ultimately, what we are learning about these nostalgia settings is that everyone made the setting their own in a lot of ways. The...

Yes, except it is not Asmodeus, D&D Lucifer stand-in, chewing cinders at the bottom of Hell is it? As for California, you prove my point. California has Death Canyon and the Bay Area, Mount Shasta, and Redwood National Forest. It is not a homogenous land. That is Arizona. ;)

I would counter that you can have a sea of fire with fire whales and the obsidian lighthouse in any other setting. The awesome part of your idea is the image of Fire whales pulling ceramic skiffs across a Sea of Molten Glass to attack all that the party holds dear. Does it need to be from a land...

Oh I'm sorry. I thought this was abuse. Arguments are down the hall. Here is my argument. City of Brass is cool. The Elemental Plane of fire is filler. Levistus trapped in Hell Ice is iconic. A whole layer of Ice Hell is lazy. The problem with planes is they are giant sections of blank with...