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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 6910047" data-attributes="member: 37579">Kinda. They have a Realms, but every author is off in their own corner of the world doing their own thing. They all have their own backstory and details that make it hard for any of the current books to serve as a good introductory point, Well, it's the "D&D movie" not the "WotC movie". The "WotC movie" would be the story of the corporation's founding and rise to success...Plus, there's no reason a D&D movie doomed to fail any more than the Warcraft movie was doomed to be bad. Warcraft *could* have been good. Plus, it's not like the two franchises are remotely the same, beyond belonging to the fantasy genre. They used to be. I'm uncertain if they still are. But, the thing is, the more books there are in a series, the more intimidating that series is to new readers. The harder it is for new people to break into. Plus, having a beginning and an end makes the series attractive, so you don't have to wait for new books for year after year: you can just read to the end. And long running series get repetitive after a while. It was said that a couple of the later Drizzt books were fairly derivative of the early ones, and the most recent trilogy has actually undone some of the changes to the series. If the series continues, it will be akin to a comic where it keeps rebooting every few years to keep the character constant and iconic.</blockquote>