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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Levistus's_Leviathan" data-source="post: 9270374" data-attributes="member: 7023887">They might do that later. They've done it with other recent-ish books. They were very upfront with the inspirations for Descent into Avernus and Rime of the Frostmaiden, for instance (Mad Max and John Carpenter's The Thing respectively). IMO, it probably does take some inspiration from Infinity War and Endgame (which isn't a bad thing, all art has things that inspired it, and the MCU is still extremely popular), but it also is probably a matter of convergent evolution with the Rod of Seven Parts filling a similar niche of a "multi-piece MacGuffin" from previous editions that can be easily used to score some nostalgia points as well as being an excuse to show off some of the more popular settings in D&D history, like how the Infinity Stones were used in Endgame for early MCU nostalgia.</blockquote>