Chris Cocks says to expect more D&D crossover products

Cocks says more D&D crossovers are coming.
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Chris Cocks says that more crossover products are coming from the D&D team. Speaking with GamesRadar this week, the Hasbro CEO confirmed that more D&D crossover products were in the works, citing the success of Magic: The Gathering. "I don't want to take away any headlines from the D&D team," Cocks said, "but I think you can definitely expect more crossovers inside of D&D. I mean, we've had such a fantastic experience with [crossovers] with Magic: The Gathering. D&D is a fantastic play system that I think is very open ended. You already have a fairly wide spectrum with things like Spelljammer to Curse of Strahd. So you already kind of have the DNA for it handled inside the system. So, yeah [...] You should expect more of those."

Wizards has dabbled with crossover products in the past, with multiple Magic: The Gathering campaign setting books, a Critical Role adventure campaign and setting book, and boxed sets featuring Stranger Things and Rick & Morty. While Magic: The Gathering has a more robust crossover lines called Universes Beyond, most of the IPs involved already have bespoke tabletop RPG games of some kind, so looking to that line might not be a firm indicator of what's coming for D&D. We'll note that Hasbro recently entered into a licensing deal with Harry Potter and has also dabbled with the ultra-popular Fourth Wing romantasy franchise, so those could be where D&D could be looking for future crossover products. However, that's pure speculation on our end.
 

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Christian Hoffer

Christian Hoffer

Well, we could say the D&D episode in "Ted" is more a "collab" than a crossover.

I suppose Hasbro is interested into D&D "collabs" in videogames like Fortnite but also other titles.

Here we are talking about other IPs within D&D multiverse, for example (I say it again): "Legend of Zelda", "Legends of Runeterra" or "Warcraft". Some horror franchises could be right for Ravenloft, for example "Ghostbusters", "Evil Dead", "Resident Evil" or "Buffy vampire slayers". Some child-friendly franchises could fit for "Witchlight" but this isn't officially a setting yet, and before this we should see a future UA article about fey-themmed PC species and subclasses.

Licenced content could be published in D&D-Beyond, following the same style of the character from the action-live movie "Dungeons&Dragons: Honor among thieves" or "Minecraft". It could be some comic, manga or videogame to be promoted, or something could be sold as merchadising, for example the supercute yorddles from Leagues of Legends.

Some fantasy franchises aren't too good to become D&D campaign settings because other playable species or classes aren't wellcome, for example Conan the barbarian. A different thing would be the charaters from Conan 90s cartoon show in D&D-Beyond as nPCs.

* Then wasn't Ted the evil killer fluffy bear from "Duskmourn"?
 

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Teddy Ruxpin for adults.
"Adults"

I actually like Seth McFarlane, but only because I think The Orville was great and at the time was the best not-Trek Trek on TV. I will laugh at clips of Family Guy on occasion, but never really watched it like I did The Simpsons or King of the Hill.
 


Do you have a source for this, because anecdotally it absolutely has.

Agree with Reynard.
I thought it was Someordinarygamers, but I was wrong, he is not a video game focus person. It was a "review" of things turned into video games: comics, books, board games, etc. The end result was the guy said that most video gamers are not intetested in the source. The just want their pixels. I have been unable to find it again because I did not favorite the video. :(
 

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