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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dungeonosophy" data-source="post: 7848849" data-attributes="member: 6688049">Thanks for the article. Some readers may be a bit thrown off by the term "Dungeons & Dragons" in contrast to AD&D, without a qualifier: "Original and Basic D&D".Years ago (during the 4E era) I promoted the idea of simply and totally recreating the BECMI aesthetic, so that graphics-wise 4E looks exactly like BECMI (same Larry Elmore art, same font etc), since there are so many people (gamers and non-gamers) for whom that image is iconic. The Red Box image is etched into the popular consciousness, in a similar way as the look of the Monopoly box and font.The number of Red Box customers affirms my perspective.Soon after (coincidentally?), WotC released the retro-looking Red Box 4E Essentials Starter Set. And more recently, the Stranger Things retro Red Box in mass market venues. It'd be interesting to know how well these items sold.I am also continually astounded of how WotC has chucked its Known World (Mystara) IP into the dustbin. Mystara wasn't even listed in the recent survey! This Known World was the world which ~5 million D&D customers were raised on. The hex map images of Threshold and the D&D Continent are iconic.A few years back (at the start of 5E), Bruce Heard, former TSR D&D Brand Manager, and chief designer of the Known World, begged WotC to let him revive Mystara as a setting for 5E. He offered every means: to consult for WotC, to buy a license himself, etc. He was totally snubbed. And he vowed to never work with WotC corporatists again.Same for The Realm of the D&D Cartoon Show. Why does WotC just toss its most pop-culture, multi-million-scale IPs into the trash?-Shane T.[URL unfurl="true"]https://sites.google.com/site/dndphilmont/home[/URL]</blockquote>

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