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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mirtek" data-source="post: 7657740" data-attributes="member: 40810">Neither is 5e. The tabletop RPG is so unimportant that 98% of the people they're trying to sell the brand too with all this tie-in will have never picked it up. Almost no Neverwinter player will care or even know which edition is current and how many books it has or even that the RPG is still being made and not something that D&D started with but has long since abandoned. As opposed to someone walking into a store in 2016, seeing that this edition only has three rule books to it's name and decides better not to buy it because it seems to be already discontinued? Except that's not how it works. It's the tie-ins who might help sell some of the books, which are otherwise unknown by the vast majority of your tie-in customers.Actually Marvel is still releasing dozens of comics every month They have made more money than just putting one book out that almost no one is going to buy after at most a year and have virtually no impact on your tie-in, as these target group doesn't know how many books exist anyway Indeed. It's not as if the RPG books are contributing in any significant way to the success of the multimedia tie-ins. Not at all. Most brand customers won't ever hear or care about what happened to the books. Heck, most people wanting a Baldur's Gate 3 don't even know that the FR have advances a 130 years since then as they never bought a single D&D book.Neverwinter MMO is still full of 4e terms (applied to mechanics that have nothing to do with the 4e RPG, even while 4e was the current edition) and the vast majority of players don't even know that these are technically outdated as far as D&D is concerned</blockquote>

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