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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 7128151" data-attributes="member: 6801845">I think to a certain degree it may depend on how well the movie does.HASBRO has tried several times now to leverage their intellectual property into mass market movies with mixed success.  By most accounts, Marvel now makes more money from movies than from comics.  If D&D movies are anywhere near as successful as the MCU then the books that we know and love just become a subsidiary of the D&D franchise.  We might see action figures, but the majority of the profit wouldn't be coming from the sale of books anymore.  The RP game could just be an advertising arm of the movie franchise.There's no guarantee there will be more than one movie seeing how some fantasy based movies have fared, but I'm cautiously optimistic.  It will be interesting to see how, or if, they impact the book side of the equation.</blockquote>