No, they saw the logo and a recognizable image and they bought it. They didn't ask anyone.
But, sure, this wasn't a misstep or lost opportunity. That wouldn't happen with the current WotC leadership.
D&D Movie/TV Where is all of the Honor Among Thieves D&D stuff, WotC?
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But, sure, this wasn't a misstep or lost opportunity. That wouldn't happen with the current WotC leadership.
teitan
Legend
Oh for sure. My point is that the generic world of the starter sets already conforms to everything that a tie in product would need. It just lacks the artwork. Novels are one thing, they’re cheaper and easy, you slap a new cover on them. To tie into a game adventure is development time, which means they need the script, which means NDA, which means lead time, etc etc. is it worth the investment when the product already meet 95% of what a tie in product does like name recognition and setting? No.
Honor Among Thieves?
Whizbang Dustyboots
100% that gnome
Hasbro is laying off staff. Aiming for "eh, good enough" is a great way to be among those cuts.
Hasbro's problems are in the corner offices. Job performance rarely corresponds to who gets fired under those conditions IME.
Whizbang Dustyboots
100% that gnome
Oh, man, I have the exact opposite experience. Idiot c-suite people send out mournful emails as their incompetence has led to a 30% staff cut. Once you manage to wriggle your way high enough up the org chart, it takes a lot for you to take the fall for your incompetence.
I think we're more likely to see top Hasbro execs play musical chairs than be fired.
ThrorII
Explorer
And there isn't much 'Forgotten' about that realm anymore. I feel they've really fleshed out that world to the Nth degree.....
Oh no - I must have phrased something wrong. That's exactly what I mean. The competent people end up having their jobs eliminated while the idiots in the corner offices who caused the problems either change job titles or at worst get hired to break things at another company.
Well, one corner of it.
Henadic Theologian
Hero
Given the satanic panic D&D Forgotten Realm's Bible publisher tie in. Remember Xenk and Holga died for your sins.
teitan
Legend
Yeah the subtitle and people aren’t saying “man I can’t wait to see Honor Amongst Thieves”.
teitan
Legend
Nah all of it. It’s just been a while since anything but the Sword Coast wasn’t hammered to death.
humble minion
Legend
Every part of the Forgotten Realms except the Sword Coast was largely apocalypsed into oblivion by the cocaine dream that was the Spellplague. The whole body of existing lore for the setting was deliberately, explicitly, and (I'd argue) maliciously made obsolete.
Parmandur
Book-Friend
Well, what got me back into D&D was going to see the Lego Movie in theaters in February of '14. There was a big splashy Kreo ad in front of the movie, focusing in D&D Kreo (Peperidge Farms remembers...). Sparked my interest, found there was a new Starter Set dropping soon, escalated from there.
A big splashy commercial for Dungeons & Dragona the game before the film? Very probable.
Azzy
KMF DM
Dude, you are all in. (That's not meant as a criticism.)
I haven't read the entire thread, so someone may have already brought this up, but is it possible that WotC/Hasbro don't own the rights to the characters and movie details (I'm sure there's a legalise term for what I mean).
There were a lot of legal battles to get the movie rights from whatever company had them previously, and maybe there's still some grey areas with the rights.
There were a lot of legal battles to get the movie rights from whatever company had them previously, and maybe there's still some grey areas with the rights.
Seems unlikely given the amount of non tabletop merch associated with the film.
isn't that merch done by companies other than Hasbro?
I don't think so. Hasbro owns NERF, for sure, and I assume to toys are all by Hasbro or subsidiaries.
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