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Message: <blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 8896574" data-attributes="member: 86653">100% this. D&D is you and your friends getting together to create a share story that's unique to you and your group. That's not a story that can be sold. I mean, you could. But unless you're Mercer and Co it'll be boring. Unless there's a story written wherein D&D is the central part of the story, like say that comic about an RPG that later became an RPG...whose name completely escapes me at the moment. But again, that's centering the activity, not a story inherent to the brand. Like the BMX movie from the '80s. At least they could jazz that up and make it a pseudo action-adventure story...about riding BMX bikes.Other than the fiction and settings WotC has intentionally walked away from...they don't really have stories to sell. They sell packages of content that other people take and turn into stories at their dinner table. The closest they have to a story to sell that's recognizable is something like the Curse of Strahd adventure path or Tomb of Horrors or Keep on the Borderlands. Drop some characters into that, have them bounce off the setting and events...then you have a story. Like...I don't know the D&D Cartoon. Isekai portal fantasy. That's a story. D&D isn't a story. It isn't a brand.</blockquote>