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Message: <blockquote data-quote="timbannock" data-source="post: 9701120" data-attributes="member: 17913">Probably hurt by poor long-tail success. I'm sure I'll miss some exception, but of the ones I remember:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">D&D Stranger Things Starter Set was neat, but the adventure had no replayability, and beyond that adventure, nothing offered wasn't already in the Starter Set or Essentials Kit or the later Starter Set.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Acquisitions Incorporated was a short adventure (again with little or no replayability), and its biggest and best mechanics were entirely focused on Backgrounds and Downtime, two things that just don't get a huge lift compared to classes, gear, monsters, and adventures.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Dragonlance was tied to a novel series that started with an announcement and was immediately followed by lawsuits, then had the double-whammy of a big adventure and an even bigger integrated board game that was $80...and was almost immediately dumped into bargain bins at $10. (I really think DL was WOTC answering the fan feedback of "why didn't Spelljammer have ship combat?!" but they mucked it all up so it was an incredibly expensive "well, that's what we get for giving the fans what they ask for" moment.)</li> </ul>BG3 basically snuck up on them (which is hilarious in its own right). It vaguely seems like Descent Into Avernus was about the best they could pull together for a tie-in there. And Rime had the snowy prison featured in DD:HAT, and of course that movie wasn't an MCU-level success story which led to the sale of E-One.I don't think they can really do anything right, TBH. But aside from my opinion, that track record bounces between low effort and it shows and maximum effort and it still failed.</blockquote>

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