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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6164331" data-attributes="member: 2067">So, as may be expected, I've got FEELS about this. Let me say right off the bat: yeah, it totally makes sense for Drizzt and other D&D thingies to jump across media. We can have Drizzt action figures and comic books and novels and video games and TV shows and feature films. And it makes sense and is really interesting to find out what bits are important to signify "Drizzt" and what things that, when changed, make him unrecognizable. It doesn't make much sense for D&D itself to have a "consistent experience" though.Because D&D isn't one world. It isn't one experience. Variation should be expected.So, to make a comparison: Drizzt is like, say, Frodo in Lord of the Rings. Totally makes sense to be transmedia. Zoom out a little bit to the Lord of the Rings itself -- still totally within the realm of transmedia. LotR videogames, LotR TV shows, whatever. Good good good. But don't stop there. Zoom out to the level of New Line Cinema. Does it make sense for New Line Cinema's brand to be transmedia? To have a consistent experience across all of its films? Do Frodo and Sam have to expect a consistent experience with Reefer Madness and A Nightmare on Elm Street? What about if you zoom out farther to Warner Bros. Entertainment? Does LotR need a consistent experience with The Maltese Falcon and Duck Amok?Or even within Hasbro's own camp: does it make sense to pretend that My Little Pony, GI Goe and Transformers all exist in the same reality as each other, and that you need a consistent experience when moving between them?Heck no.D&D is not a world. It is more of a network. It contains within itself many worlds. It doesn't make any more sense to make D&D itself a consistent experience across media than it does to make Turner Broadcasting a consistent experience across media. The Forgotten realms is a world. It can have a consistent experience across media. But D&D is not a world, it is a diversity of worlds, all sharing nothing bigger than a network. D&D contains within it worlds and characters and settings where the transmedia experience makes a whole lot of sense and can be really awesome. D&D itself is not that, though. It is too changable, too flexible, to personal, too local, too variable. You can't expect a consistent experience from D&D anymore than you can expect a consistent experience from every movie Warner Bros. produces. there are multiple things under this umbrella.</blockquote>

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