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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 7670518" data-attributes="member: 5100">Agreed. I really don't care about the video games, though, except as they lock in the TTRPG stories. I've generally been unimpressed by the D&D branded video games. They don't suck, but they don't really grab me, either. It's entirely possible, though, that's just because they're all set in FR and I'm hopelessly biased, regardless of how much I try to not be.The hope I was addressing is that the TTRPG consumers might be getting fatigued by the Realms as the focus of the TTRPG.That worked for Phandelver and PotA. Not so much for ToD. If the Realms was really transparent and easy to exorcise, it's just like the implied Greyhawk in 1E, and I agree with you in principle. So far, it seems like Richard Baker is the only author who can do that well and most of the talk from WotC implies that to be the exception to the rule. I'm not quite there, yet. Given the choice between the D&D brand becoming synonymous with the Forgotten Realms or it dying entirely, I'll choose the latter. I've said before that I don't mind the Realms in that they help pay for the rest of D&D, whether that's home brew or another published setting. If non-Realms table-top D&D becomes the exception, that's the tail wagging the dog. Likewise, my only interest in D&D branded video games, books, movies, etc. is if they drive more people towards the TTRPG. Sure, it'd be nice if those were fun for me, too. Really, though, there are enough "brands" in those spaces that my needs are already met.Almost everything the current "Brand Manager" has been saying is a big turn-off. Unless he can tell me how it helps me with my decidedly non-Realms table-top game, he isn't discussing a product I give a rat's hind-end about. He may as well be discussing applying the D&D "brand" to feminine hygiene products for all the relevance it has.Note that even having a Realms-heavy catalog wouldn't be that big of an issue if I had any clue when I could expect to see support for something else. It's the exclusivity that chafes. Even an announcement of "We're doing a one-and-done release for Spelljammer in 2017," (to pick something I wouldn't buy) would be less annoying than the "What is this 'D&D' of which you speak? We're only doing Forgotten Realms, right now."</blockquote>

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