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<blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 8971746" data-attributes="member: 11760"><p>Coming back to this: A stealth Target release would get around the problem of getting it into Diamond and other distribution chains and would be why retailers like [USER=59816]@FitzTheRuke[/USER] wouldn't know about any such tie-in.</p><p></p><p>So it's <em>possible. </em>How <em>probable </em>it is, I don't know.</p><p></p><p>Let's say, for whatever reason, Hasbro/WotC didn't pay attention to how well the movie was testing (apparently as early as last fall) until very late in the process and had to jump into action to create a movie tie-in here. (I would pretend that me ranting and raving about this tipped the scales, but if I had that power, gnomes would be the featured players of D&D.)</p><p></p><p>Something the size of Stormwreck Isle, especially if they're just including those same navy blue dice again, can probably be done pretty quickly. Get some of their all-star writers to do something structured very similarly to previous boxed sets (mandatory encounter, home base and player choice encounters, mandatory encounter to wrap it all up) in a setting or situation that ties into the movie in some fashion (maybe Neverwinter, maybe another setting visited in the film, maybe make it star side characters with pregen stats), and then get the art created and printed up and distributed to Targets by next Tuesday.</p><p></p><p>I am not a games publisher, but that feels like a doable but very lean timetable, based on how long developing other products takes. The writing and art could probably get done in that time frame, but as I know from an OMG number of Kickstarters I back (and I have only backed one failed campaign, so these are the successful ones), there are tons of problems that can come up at the printing and distribution stages.</p><p></p><p>That said, the printing and distribution issues go away if it's released first on D&D Beyond and then shows up in stores when the physical product issues are taken care of.</p><p></p><p>So ... maybe? I don't know what else they could be talking about regarding the movie, otherwise, other than "hey, you should all go see this movie," which would be the least surprising thing they could possibly say.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Whizbang Dustyboots, post: 8971746, member: 11760"] Coming back to this: A stealth Target release would get around the problem of getting it into Diamond and other distribution chains and would be why retailers like [USER=59816]@FitzTheRuke[/USER] wouldn't know about any such tie-in. So it's [I]possible. [/I]How [I]probable [/I]it is, I don't know. Let's say, for whatever reason, Hasbro/WotC didn't pay attention to how well the movie was testing (apparently as early as last fall) until very late in the process and had to jump into action to create a movie tie-in here. (I would pretend that me ranting and raving about this tipped the scales, but if I had that power, gnomes would be the featured players of D&D.) Something the size of Stormwreck Isle, especially if they're just including those same navy blue dice again, can probably be done pretty quickly. Get some of their all-star writers to do something structured very similarly to previous boxed sets (mandatory encounter, home base and player choice encounters, mandatory encounter to wrap it all up) in a setting or situation that ties into the movie in some fashion (maybe Neverwinter, maybe another setting visited in the film, maybe make it star side characters with pregen stats), and then get the art created and printed up and distributed to Targets by next Tuesday. I am not a games publisher, but that feels like a doable but very lean timetable, based on how long developing other products takes. The writing and art could probably get done in that time frame, but as I know from an OMG number of Kickstarters I back (and I have only backed one failed campaign, so these are the successful ones), there are tons of problems that can come up at the printing and distribution stages. That said, the printing and distribution issues go away if it's released first on D&D Beyond and then shows up in stores when the physical product issues are taken care of. So ... maybe? I don't know what else they could be talking about regarding the movie, otherwise, other than "hey, you should all go see this movie," which would be the least surprising thing they could possibly say. [/QUOTE]
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