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Lorraine Williams' quotes: Lorraine Williams, who led D&D’s original parent company, TSR, for a decade between the 1980s and ’90s, describes its players as voracious, intellectually driven readers “with unusually long attention spans”. They also tend to be instinctively hostile toward anything...

Weird. I do not subscribe to Bloomberg. I did make an account for free articles.

An interesting Bloomberg article about Hasbro trying to make more money with D&D. Featuring comments from Lorraine Williams! She has nice words about D&D's fans. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-03-30/dungeons-and-dragons-movie-gives-hasbro-a-golden-opportunity

Would the DnD logo, any online platform would be a success... if it worked. 4e never got one and 5e was supposed to get projet Morningstar and others. They didn't work. For that you need a good team of programmers. Which Beyond had. The DnD brand brings the fans, but you still need to sell...

What planescape? There is no 5th release of planescape. Only shiny radiant déjà vue. Masters Wizards if gud. I mean good.

I see you lack of argument and raise you a " no ".

What happened to Sigil? A bullet to the head of the Lady of Pain? (only a few will understand) A big piece of D&D history and storyline was just swept under the rug for a shiny radiant new dejà vue. The cover art is rather bad. For both.

What is a "Roll20". It doesn't say so in the headline.

400$ for a soda canne is quite expensive.

The word race seems to be a misnomer from a time when racialized people, nationality, ethnicity, religion, where all conflated together. Species might be more accurate, but opens up another cane of worms.

I miss the smorasbord that was the Legend and Lore book. Greek, Egyptian, Norse lore, but also tge Round Table and Lankhmar...

Yeah, no. MtG is way more popular than D&D or a streamed show. It is way more profitable for WotC than Wildemount will ever been because it has the larger fan base.

The black border reminds me of late 2e products (some call it 2.5). I understood why Ravnica was chosen over Dominaria, but Theros? Its NPCs and artifacts aren't the most iconic. If I'm a MtG fan qui wants to see MtG inspired D&D products, I'm not looking for Greek mythology flavored D&D.

D&D is so well known that it influenced Warcraft. Than Warcraft became so popular that it influenced D&D and we got 4e. At some point it is all self-referential.

But being masters of everything is only useful when the party doesn't have everything. No rogue? The cleric or wizards have spells for that. Have a rogue? If the cleric or wizards waste spells on rogue abilities it is bad management of resources.

Snikrs. Bonner. Snikers.

Children who do not age are vampires.

Kinda weird this isn't released with a FR centric AP or supplement, but is released with a Critical Role supplement. Especially since they share the explorer theme.

I'm fascinated how we went from FR books only to Ravnica, Eberron, AI and this. Yet I do not feel engaged to buy them. The content of the Ravnica book was lacking and no one is talking about it anymore.