D&D 5E (2014) WotC Strixhaven/Kickstarter Red Dawn

[Dausuul]

... wow, that works for ANYTHING. I mean, even just literally using the nouns from WotC module titles...

Red Storm
Red King
Red Thunder

Red Dragon
Red Heist

Red Wild
Red Witchlight

Red Curriculum
Red Chaos

Mind. Blown.

Don't forget Red Hand of Doom.

 

[Joshua Randall]

... wow, that works for ANYTHING. I mean, even just literally using the nouns from WotC module titles...

[...]

Mind. Blown.

I know, right?

Red Keep
Red Borderlands

Red Palace
Red Silver
Red Princess <-- my favorite! this totally sounds like an old Cinemax movie

Red Assault <-- another good one!
Red Aerie
Red Slave
Red Lords

 

[darjr]

Red Handbook
Red Guide
Red Manual
Red Folio
Red Demigods
Red Arcana

No, I don't get it.

 

[humble minion]

Red Desert
Red Desolation

Red Night
Red Below

It works, I tell you...

 

[darjr]

Red Magazine
Red Realms
Red Gathering
Red Set
Red Screen
Red Mat

Nope. I don't see it.

 

[humble minion]

Red Realms
Red Gathering


Nope. I don't see it.

Oh come on, I can just picture the Estefez-festooned movie posters for these two in particular...

 

[darjr]

OK, now I see it. I don't like it, but I see it.

 

[Uni-the-Unicorn!]

Shame: Red Dawn had some original ideas.

(Though are we sure it didn't get taken down because someone owns "Red Dawn" as a name?)

I thought it got taken down because it was never going to make its funding goal. Preemptive strike by the creators I thought

edit: guess I was wrong as it did meet its goal. Makes me wonder if they realized the goal listed wasn’t sufficient

 

[Ruin Explorer]

I'm not a lawyer, but isn't that essentially what a C&D is? "You're doing stuff you shouldn't do. Stop that or I'll sue you."

Yeah, that's the point "stop that or I'll sue you". What they've described is not that. A C&D explicitly says "stop or else consequences". It doesn't say "This stuff is a bit dodgy, you probably want to change that before you get in trouble" in a broad sense. You see companies/individuals sending out this sort of thing when they're trying to be gentle, and not to look like a jerk, usually. It's also possible it was a third party who warned them. Or they're just describing a normal C&D in a very odd terms to try and make it look like they weren't in trouble, I wouldn't be shocked if they were.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Though this does bring me a question of, is Red Dawn being a Dark Sun clone actually a bad thing?

Your post does a good job of illustrating how being a clone is indeed a bad thing, because you show how the creators clearly had interesting ideas and just buried them under a deluge of cloned stuff which Dark Sun did better, and, I would suggest, to a lesser extent, crude attempts to be un-PC/edgelord-y.