D&D 5E (2024) MichaelSomething's Official Statement on the 2014 D&D rules going out of print

[Retreater]

Like, you guys know the postage stamps, museum exhibit, Lego sets, young adventurer novels, cookbooks, Fanta flavors (or whoever made the sodas), Funko pops, t-shirts, etc, ... that's all marketing.
It doesn't have to be a TV ad to be marketing.

 

[Burnside]

Like, you guys know the postage stamps, museum exhibit, Lego sets, young adventurer novels, cookbooks, Fanta flavors (or whoever made the sodas), Funko pops, t-shirts, etc, ... that's all marketing.
It doesn't have to be a TV ad to be marketing.

Everyone in this thread knows that, yes.

 

[KYRON45]

Like, you guys know the postage stamps, museum exhibit, Lego sets, young adventurer novels, cookbooks, Fanta flavors (or whoever made the sodas), Funko pops, t-shirts, etc, ... that's all marketing.
It doesn't have to be a TV ad to be marketing.

Marketing is ads, commercials and product placement. Merchandise is the things those things are selling.

I’m an old man now so my understanding of merchandising may be stuck in the past.

 

[Rabulias]

I’ve never seen a national tv ad or end cap retail display, billboards in time square or parents fighting over boxed starter sets on Black Friday.

Way back in the day, D&D had some TV commercials. Here is one I remember seeing:

 

[jasper]

Here's the thing about the 2014 rules going out of print. It's been the largest print run in the history of RPGs. Those books are going to be flooding the secondary market for pennies on the dollar.
As someone who works with books for a living, people rarely throw out books. They sell them in yard sales, trade them in to used bookstores, give them away to libraries and Goodwill.
It will be decades before the stock runs out.

In my dragoncon swag and seek page, someone was giving away D&D books. So they will be available.

 

[jasper]

I have the Star Wars original theme song on 45.

what is forty five uncle skid? Did they sell SW in a 1911 model too?

 

[KYRON45]

Way back in the day, D&D had some TV commercials. Here is one I remember seeing:

Was this a national ad?
I’m open to learning new things.

 

[Burnside]

Was this a national ad?
I’m open to learning new things.

In the early 80s, TSR had several national TV ads for D&D. The one with Alan Ruck and Jamie Gertz is probably the best known.

 

[Remathilis]

Does the fact that the hard core merchandising had been going on for decades somehow make it a good thing?

I fail to see why my D&D branded coffee mug or T-shirt is harming anything or anyone.

 

[KYRON45]

In the early 80s, TSR had several national TV ads for D&D. The one with Alan Ruck and Jamie Gertz is probably the best known.

I stand corrected.
1 commercial from 40 years ago.
Here’s to another 50 years!!!