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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Abstruse" data-source="post: 9023422" data-attributes="member: 6669048">So the whole pivot to FAST thing is because most streaming services plateaued in subscriber numbers back during 2020/early 2021 (gee, don't know why they picked up so many subscribers during that particular window of time...) so companies are seeing decreased revenues when the rules of modern economics is Line Must Always Go Up. Being sustainable and profitable isn't good enough, it must be more profitable than it was last quarter repeat forever.So a lot of these studios are stuck with back catalogs of stuff they own the rights to that isn't going to drive subscriber numbers on their own but they still want to make money off them, so they started doing free services that are ad-supported. Pad it out with cheap non-scripted (so non-union) new material and maybe a couple of fan-favorite series that don't cost a lot but get good word-of-mouth promotion to make people aware of the service (for example, the Leverage sequel series is available from Amazon on Freevee and people like me won't shut up about it because I friggin' love Leverage) and you've got something that almost passively makes profit.This means what you're going to see on a D&D FAST network is going to be:<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">D&D Actual Play shows (Encounter Party)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Minor variations on D&D Actual Play shows (Faster Purple Worm Kill Kill as an improv comedy show mixed with D&D (BTW if you don't think this will work, Tracy Hickman has been running Killer Breakfast at conventions for something like 20 years now))</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Themed reality TV and talk shows (Heroes Feast as a D&D-themed cooking show, but I wouldn't be surprised if they do a late night talk show format program interviewing celebrities about their experiences playing D&D or people doing explainer videos about D&D lore)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Any crap they can find that's cheap to license or they already have the rights to (old fantasy movies, TV shows, and webseries in particular with the old 80s D&D cartoon being the prime example there)</li> </ol>What you should NOT expect from a D&D FAST network:<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (that's on Paramount+ and will be for a while)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The Joe Manganiello documentary (that'll also be on Paramount+)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Any big-budget scripted D&D show like the one they've been trying to get off the ground (that will be a union production and way out of the budget for a network like this because, despite this being the model of broadcast TV, FAST services don't have the pure numbers to make back that sort of up-front cost)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Anything from Critical Role (while not impossible, CR's already got a relationship with Amazon so are unlikely to license any of their shows to Hasbro, especially when they've got enough material to damn near launch their own FAST network)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Anything featuring games that aren't Dungeons & Dragons or otherwise owned by Hasbro (you might get something with the Transformers/Power Rangers/GI Joe RPG, but I wouldn't hold my breath on World of Darkness, Warhammer, etc. and definitely not Star Trek, Fallout, or other licensed RPGs they don't have the rights to)</li> </ol></blockquote>

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