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Love you, buddy. I think we're tired (or at least I am; time to go home!) and talking past each other a little?

Yeah, sure. We may have made a much bigger deal out of it than the tweet itself really merits, and gone off on all sorts of tangents in the process (in a 20+ page thread?! NO!). As Whizbang observed this may have just been their social media peeps getting on a trend that other social media...

I mean, you've been on Twitter, or at least seen social media-savvy companies capitalize on it and making pop culture references, right? Taylor Swift has an enormous fanbase, largely of Millennials. She's not my thing, but it seems reasonably plausible to me that there could be a good overlap...

Let me backtrack the thread for a minute to try to untangle the misunderstanding a bit. Ok, so here's what Whizbang was saying, in context, what he was responding to. Warpiglet and Lakeside were opining that maybe current D&D lacks a fantasy identity to make discrete but limited deviations...

Maybe there's some licensing rights issue with the translator, who was prominently credited in these? TSR Legal certainly didn't always have their ducks in a row.

Which is kind of hilarious when I think about the Japanese RC localization Questing Beast showcased recently. TSR: Inadvertently has the first or one of the first games appealing to anime fans, in the 1980s with Record of Lodoss War being a B/X Actual Play, and in the early 90s with the...

Cool. Ehhh.... It IS that, but it's not ONLY that. PART of what it did was try to roll back some of the more radical changes of 4E and appeal to the OSR and older crowd. But I think it was also aiming to be more accessible for younger gamers and a "bridge" edition for all D&D fans. In the...

No, not specifically. Whizbang referenced a few specific hugely-successful-in-pop-culture fantasy properties as examples of fantasy IPs which are contemporaneous with 5E and likely reference points for modern (younger than us) D&D buyers and fantasy fans. (Side note: As a tiny piece of...

Yikes. But yeah. As mentioned earlier in the thread, it's a piece of D&D art which can capitalize on a new Taylor Swift reference, and it comes from a Radiant Citadel adventure. So it is indeed selling D&D.

The original Avatar: TLA show ended in 2008; Minecraft and League of Legends were both released in 2009. So they would have been recent prominent and pop culture the entire time 5E was being developed... The Firebird mentioned a couple of other hugely popular touchstones of modern fantasy-...

I'm not sure I 100% agree with that. I think there are SOME elements of Arthurian knights in armor and pop-historical medieval European/early modern-based works in the mix. The weapon, armor, and equipment lists are still mostly centered there, for example.

D&D has become increasingly self-referential, but when every edition of D&D has come out, its art, and the technology and fashion depicted in that art, has been significantly influenced by the contemporary cultural milieu (as Gygax might put it). :) D&D is "the generic fantasy adventure/RPG"...

I don't want to jinx it, but I'm feeling increasingly normal so far today. Between the double Epley maneuver yesterday, getting off the meclizine (which is great for vertigo-induced nausea, but muffles the neural response from the non-impaired vestibular organ as well and creates its own weird...

Jeff Dee doing 70s bell bottoms and (sometimes exaggerated versions of) mid-century superhero boots* on D&D characters is definitely a product of the time which I just accepted as part of the visual language of heroes. Especially since I was regularly reading comics in the 80s at the same time...

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We always rolled ability scores (with, of course, generous house rules) in 3.x. The biggest factor in "character builds" IME was prestige classes. Each had prerequisites, from as simple as a certain race to a minimum BAB or caster level, to more in-depth like having specific feats or x number...