D&D General Dungeons & Dragons Teams Up With HarperCollins for Young Adult Novels and Graphic Novels

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

BG3 has plies of sex and nudity, mass murder, booze, deals with devils, brains/intellect devourers that get surgically removed from a still leaving person.

BG: DiA is set in Hell and very dark including tossing peoples souls into fire to be consumed while they scream.

I say this as huge, huge, FR fan, its not a kid friendly setting and its too entrenched in the setting to distance one's self from.

So is Earth, which turns out to be a great place to set children's stories.

Young kids can see the coding on more adult-oriented products and know they're not for them. They might peek at them as forbidden fruit, but they mostly are interested in age-appropriate material.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Folks who are (rightly) digging the book mimic should check out Mage Hand Press' Mimic Book of Mimics, which has a bunch of variant ones, including sword, musical instrument and book mimics (or, more accurately, mimics that often adopt those forms).

 

[Hexmage-EN]

I mean, 8-12 year olds know how to use the Internet.

The transition from message boards (like ENWorld) to more centralized sites like Tumblr, Twitter, and various wikis has pretty much erased the line between spaces for minors and spaces for adults, especially in terms of nerd communities.

 

[THEMNGMNT]

Sold! Just pre-ordered for my 5 year old daughter. Er, and me.

 

[DarkCrisis]

I mean, WotC has made FR it's default setting for 5E, and are largely moving away from all the NSFW stuff.

This is also for wee little kids, I don't think many of the readers are going to have a hankering to check out the wiki.

If GW can make 40K kids novels, so can WotC with D&D.

 

[DarkCrisis]

I mean, WotC has made FR it's default setting for 5E, and are largely moving away from all the NSFW stuff.

This is also for wee little kids, I don't think many of the readers are going to have a hankering to check out the wiki.

Double post, sorry

 

[Urriak Uruk]

The transition from message boards (like ENWorld) to more centralized sites like Tumblr, Twitter, and various wikis has pretty much erased the line between spaces for minors and spaces for adults, especially in terms of nerd communities.

Snapchat, Instagram and Tiktok would disagree with that... they definitely tilt younger. Not that they have no adults, but Twitter is not very youth friendly (being much more influencer/news-iness in nature).

Tumblr... I seriously don't hear Tumblr mentioned by young people ever except in the context of art. And that's still rare, compared to Instagram.

 

[Hexmage-EN]

Snapchat, Instagram and Tiktok would disagree with that... they definitely tilt younger. Not that they have no adults, but Twitter is not very youth friendly (being much more influencer/news-iness in nature).

Tumblr... I seriously don't hear Tumblr mentioned by young people ever except in the context of art. And that's still rare, compared to Instagram.

The creator of Hannibal got mobbed on Twitter a while back for liking fan art of two of his show's characters having sex, with people arguing that he was effectively exposing minors who followed him on Twitter to pornography.

There was also the "Brony" phenomena a while back, which included both adult men who genuinely just enjoyed the show and men who...uh...went into NSFW territory.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Snapchat, Instagram and Tiktok would disagree with that... they definitely tilt younger. Not that they have no adults, but Twitter is not very youth friendly (being much more influencer/news-iness in nature).

Twitter has a lot of different communities, many of which have no interaction with each other. In some parts of the country, high school students are all over it, as a way to be different than the more "mainstream" TikTok, etc.

There's huge numbers of political partisans, journalists, techies, the Black community, sex workers, geeks, Francophile pop music fans and many, many more, many of whom have little to no contact with each other or even awareness that there's a big community that they see nothing from.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

There was also the "Brony" phenomena a while back.

As I recall, Bronies mostly congregated on Tumblr, before Tumblr changed its terms of service (making it more kid-friendly, ironically).