D&D General Hasbro Q and A with Chris Cocks has some details about the movie production and DnDBeyond .

[darjr]

My read is: D&D Beyond has 10 million users, D&D Beyond is profitable, and D&D Beyond is actively growing still.

Oooohhh you! Lol

 

[Jaeger]

Consider DUNGEONS & DRAGONS, a year after integrating eOne, we had greenlit a movie with Paramount, our co-production partner, at a blockbuster budget with amazing talent in front of and behind the camera. We are on track to launch that film in March 2023 alongside a wave of games, consumer products, toys, licensing partnerships and digital experiences.

2023, the year of D&D... That is a very ambitious roll out.

Hooooo boy that film had better not be mediocre, suck, or just get released into a bad situation re: other major releases.

^This^

IMHO Hasbro has a lot riding on the success of all this stuff to put D&D over as a 'lifestyle' brand.

The potential for "D&D" to make money with Toys, Video games, Tv, and Movies is exponentially bigger than anything that it will ever do as an RPG.

But they really need all those thing to not suck for their plan to work. Because that is a big investment in cash coming out all at once that can be soured if the Movie is mediocre, the Tv series bombs, or the videogames are crap.

 

[GreyLord]

Huh? Someone said Cinquest of Nerath is risk like.

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It's more like a cross between Axis and Allies, the original Fortress America's combat system, and Magic Quest.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Some of that verbiage I don’t understand, can you explain it?

You mean the latter half re: EBITDA? I have to admit, whilst I am familiar with EBITDA from doing research stuff, I have no idea what "a favorable 8 times trailing twelve-month EBITDA multiple" is. Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR), if I understand correctly, is basically about how much money you put in vs. how much something grows - so it's not the literal growth rate - they're not saying D&D Beyond is growing 50% year-on-year, they're saying the value of investing X amount in D&D Beyond is increasing by 50% year-on-year. The "compound" bit is because it hasn't actually grown steadily - this is a smoothed out number. So it might actually have had spikey growth, or grown more earlier or later, but if you smooth it out over the times its existed, you get this value. Financial bods feel free to correct me or explain the "8 times trailing..." deal.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

You mean the latter half re: EBITDA? I have to admit, whilst I am familiar with EBITDA from doing research stuff, I have no idea what "a favorable 8 times trailing twelve-month EBITDA multiple" is. Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR), if I understand correctly, is basically about how much money you put in vs. how much something grows - so it's not the literal growth rate - they're not saying D&D Beyond is growing 50% year-on-year, they're saying the value of investing X amount in D&D Beyond is increasing by 50% year-on-year. The "compound" bit is because it hasn't actually grown steadily - this is a smoothed out number. So it might actually have had spikey growth, or grown more earlier or later, but if you smooth it out over the times its existed, you get this value. Financial bods feel free to correct me or explain the "8 times trailing..." deal.

Reading that made me think of:

 

[MNblockhead]

I've heard that the licensed monopoly games tend to have different rules that make the game much less brutally anti-fun.

I have yet to play a Monopoly game--of any variant--that I enjoyed. The only I like the best is Monopoly Junior, for young children, because it is a mercifully shorter play time.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

I have yet to play a Monopoly game--of any variant--that I enjoyed. The only I like the best is Monopoly Junior, for young children, because it is a mercifully shorter play time.

Yeah I would much rather play something like Pandemic.

Ya know that format would be really fun with the story of Tyranny of Dragons.

 

[Staffan]

Huh? Someone said Cinquest of Nerath is risk like.

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I've only played it once, but it was much more Axis & Allies-like, particularly in its combat system.