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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8172015" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>I feel like "very likely" feels off to me, because it's celebrity-connected, rather than being just an established product, and for all of the 20th century and the 21st century so far, anything celeb-connected, has been... volatile. Even there's no scandal or whatever, stars can suddenly fade, suddenly be outshone. Audiences are often fickle. This is why I think the multimedia aspect is important, because at a certain point, even if all the people who watch streamed D&D and the like switched away to some "hip new thing", if CR has TV shows and games, that matters a lot less, because even if you lose the streaming audience there's no hard link to those other audiences.</p><p></p><p>The only other problem I see for Exandria is that, if anything, it may be more boringly generic than the FR, so even assuming CR is popular and remains so, I could see a new fantasy setting coming out of the woodwork, one that was sufficiently kitchen-sink but less boringly so, in that 20-year period, and suddenly becoming "THE" D&D setting for a lot of players.</p><p></p><p>It's interesting to imagine what it would have looked like if we'd had social media and so on back in 1994 (and no, forums were not meaningfully that), when things like Dark Sun and Planescape were coming out. I think Planescape would have been waaaaay bigger than it was, because people would have been talking about it so much on social media etc. I don't think a revived Planescape will have anything near that cachet, it's been done, but a new setting could, if sufficiently clever.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Pretty sure fantasy will just continue to be pretty all-encompassing term for "anything with magic in it". Not sure why you think Wuxia is new to fantasy/RPGs. There have been RPGs featuring Wuxia since the 1990s (Feng Shui, Exalted, and so on). Indeed, D&D has had official Wuxia-inspired sourcebooks before - for example the Book of Nine Swords for 3.5E.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8172015, member: 18"] I feel like "very likely" feels off to me, because it's celebrity-connected, rather than being just an established product, and for all of the 20th century and the 21st century so far, anything celeb-connected, has been... volatile. Even there's no scandal or whatever, stars can suddenly fade, suddenly be outshone. Audiences are often fickle. This is why I think the multimedia aspect is important, because at a certain point, even if all the people who watch streamed D&D and the like switched away to some "hip new thing", if CR has TV shows and games, that matters a lot less, because even if you lose the streaming audience there's no hard link to those other audiences. The only other problem I see for Exandria is that, if anything, it may be more boringly generic than the FR, so even assuming CR is popular and remains so, I could see a new fantasy setting coming out of the woodwork, one that was sufficiently kitchen-sink but less boringly so, in that 20-year period, and suddenly becoming "THE" D&D setting for a lot of players. It's interesting to imagine what it would have looked like if we'd had social media and so on back in 1994 (and no, forums were not meaningfully that), when things like Dark Sun and Planescape were coming out. I think Planescape would have been waaaaay bigger than it was, because people would have been talking about it so much on social media etc. I don't think a revived Planescape will have anything near that cachet, it's been done, but a new setting could, if sufficiently clever. Pretty sure fantasy will just continue to be pretty all-encompassing term for "anything with magic in it". Not sure why you think Wuxia is new to fantasy/RPGs. There have been RPGs featuring Wuxia since the 1990s (Feng Shui, Exalted, and so on). Indeed, D&D has had official Wuxia-inspired sourcebooks before - for example the Book of Nine Swords for 3.5E. [/QUOTE]
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