D&D General Dungeons & Dragons Encyclopedia - new product

Parmandur · 2026-03-15T17:48:27+0000

Azzy said:
OMG, guys! Obsessing over a marketing blurb is next-level ridiculous. Please touch grass.

Sometimes we need a distraction form grass and changing diapers.

Alzrius · 2026-03-15T17:49:27+0000

Parmandur said:
I did edit my statement slightly, but the point stands: if you can find a similar reference text, I will admit you are correct. If you cannot, I understand, then the statement that this is a first time ever product makes sense.

The only point that stands is that you've incorrectly asserted that "official title" means "reference encyclopedia," apparently because the text in question is on the back cover of an instance of the latter (and have yet to post an image of that back cover to confirm, I'll note). Given that you can't back up that justification, this not being the first time the material in question has appeared in an official title is the only sensible conclusion.

Azzy · 2026-03-15T17:49:59+0000

Parmandur said:
Sometimes we need a distraction form grass and changing diapers.

There are much more constructive endeavors.

Parmandur · 2026-03-15T17:50:10+0000

Alzrius said:
The only point that stands is that you've incorrectly asserted that "official title" means "reference encyclopedia," apparently because the text in question is on the back cover of an instance of the latter (and have yet to post an image of that back cover to confirm, I'll note). Given that you can't back up that justification, this not being the first time the material in question has appeared in an official title is the only sensible conclusion.

If you can provide the similar example, I am still waiting.

The DK marketing copy doesn't bother me, but as far as I can tell it is accurate.

Alzrius · 2026-03-15T17:50:38+0000

Parmandur said:
If you can provide the similar example, I am still waiting.

If you can justify saying that "official title" means "reference encyclopedia," I'd be happy to hear it.

Parmandur · 2026-03-15T17:52:48+0000

Alzrius said:
If you can justify saying that "official title" means "reference encyclopedia," I'd be happy to hear it.

It is text about a reference encyclopedia. Can you provide a similar example?

Alzrius · 2026-03-15T17:53:44+0000

Parmandur said:
It is text about a reference encyclopedia. Can you provide a similar example?

Yet the text says it's the first time in an "official title," rather than the first time in a reference encyclopedia. Can you justify substituting one for the other?

Parmandur · 2026-03-15T17:59:17+0000

Alzrius said:
Yet the text says it's the first time in an "official title," rather than the first time in a reference encyclopedia. Can you justify substituting one for the other?

Because it is a reference encyclopedia. The art book is not. Mild exaggeration, at most. Unless you cna name a specific reference encyclopedia that is similar...?

Alzrius · 2026-03-15T18:01:18+0000

Parmandur said:
Because it is a reference encyclopedia. The art book is not. Mild exaggeration, at most.

I'm glad you can admit there's a level of exaggerating going on; now we need to build on that by admitting that reference encyclopedias are just one kind of official title, and that art books are another kind of official title.

Parmandur said:
Unless you cna name a specific reference encyclopedia that is similar...?

See above. The important thing is not to grant the premise that "official title," with regard to WotC products, changes meanings depending on where you read it.