D&D General Economist Articles: How did "Dungeons & Dragons" Win?

[MNblockhead]

Was this covered already? Came out on the 6th, but I didn't see it until today:

How did “Dungeons & Dragons” win?

The role-playing game, celebrating its 50th birthday, continues to inspire players and Hollywood creators

www.economist.com

(behind a pay/register wall)

The digital article is titled "How did 'Dungeons & Dragons' Win?" In the print version it was titled "Twenty-sided dicing with death."

Really nothing new in it and I'm not sure why it came out now. They start the article mentioning Stranger Things, Season 5 coming out next year. But has a date been given for Stranger Things yet? I thought it wasn't coming out until the last quarter of 2025. Seems like strange timing to run this article.

 

[Zardnaar]

Probably a waste of time linking to it if it's not accessible easily.

 

[Distracted DM]

WHEN “STRANGER THINGS” returns for its final season next year, hundreds of millions of people around the world will be abuzz with talk of Demogorgons, the Mind Flayer and Vecna. As a result, they will also be talking about “Dungeons & Dragons” (D&D). The hit television show, which often features its young heroes playing D&D, draws its lore and monsters from the fantasy role-playing game, in which the goal is to form a party of adventurers and go on quests.

Mod Note:

This is the end of what is readable without paying the fee the magazine asks in subscriptions to pay the, y’know, journalists it hires.

 

[Audiomancer]

Really nothing new in it and I'm not sure why it came out now. They start the article mentioning Stranger Things, Season 5 coming out next year. But has a date been given for Stranger Things yet? I thought it wasn't coming out until the last quarter of 2025. Seems like strange timing to run this article.

My best guess is that someone at The Economist noticed they hadn’t done an article on D&D’s 50th anniversary yet (or hadn’t done one since early in the year), and decided they needed get one out before December 31.

As for the Stranger Things reference? Maybe they wanted to reference an upcoming event (alongside all the recent-past events cited in the article), and ST was the highest-profile one they could think of. Or an SEO specialist decided that ST would draw more search hits and page views.