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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Retreater" data-source="post: 8264983" data-attributes="member: 42040">Mid 20s, with some in their late 20s. I guess they saw it on video or tv when they were kids?We know that they likely didn't watch the newer Mummy movie with Tom Cruise, which did badly at the box office. Which can be what happens when corporations try to reimagine tropes for younger audiences.But you know what they have done? Played a lot of Skyrim - which is plundering a bunch of tombs filled with undead.Trust me. I get why it's a problem to have heroes looting tombs based on ancient Egyptian culture. People who looked like me nearly destroyed it for centuries. I've seen the plundered treasures in museums and the remains of the mummified dead on display. I've seen art painted with "mummy brown." A local pharmacy has a jar for a "powdered mummy" cure-all on display.In our history we've romanticized, fetishized, and villanized a culture with thousands of years of history, that was the lone survivor of the Bronze Age Collapse, that preserved an ancient history in writing and art.I'm not going to offer suggestions of how Wizards can do it successfully because I've obviously not yet seen what their efforts have been.</blockquote>