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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 7687921" data-attributes="member: 7006"><p>I agree with you wholeheartedly on Salvatore, which is why I had Drizzt as the only FR name to achieve that kind of general culture penetration. But to the predominant part of the general public who don't read, play or experience anything that might even be tangentially related to D&D (the general public who HAS to be convinced to see a D&D movie for it to have any sort of fnancial success, because the D&D nerds alone wouldn't accomplish it)... the term 'Dungeons & Dragons' is known, but little else in that sphere is. 'Drizzt Do'Urden' might be the second-most known. After that... we're talking <em>maybe</em> the name 'Forgotten Realms', <em>maybe</em> the name 'Greyhawk', <em>maybe</em> 'Ravenloft', 'Tomb of Horrors'. But individual cities in any of the campaign settings? Extremely unlikely.</p><p></p><p>So the writers of the D&D movie script could make up a town name and have it have as much meaning to the people in the theater as using a name like 'Waterdeep'. Sure... all the nerds in the crowd might eat up the idea of seeing 'Waterdeep' in screen... but Hasbro won't be going into production strictly with the idea of catering to us.</p><p></p><p>At least not to the original point of Hasbro <strong>forcing</strong> WotC to keep releasing Forgotten Realms <em>game product</em> right now just on the off-chance it might have a slight connection to a film down the road (even if game players are tired of seeing FR used for game product.) I don't think the Hasbro suits are looking NEARLY that close at things in the little D&D division of Wizards of the Coast.</p><p></p><p>I think WotC is releasing Realms product right now, because Realms product is what sells. Despite the claims of some folks here on the boards.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 7687921, member: 7006"] I agree with you wholeheartedly on Salvatore, which is why I had Drizzt as the only FR name to achieve that kind of general culture penetration. But to the predominant part of the general public who don't read, play or experience anything that might even be tangentially related to D&D (the general public who HAS to be convinced to see a D&D movie for it to have any sort of fnancial success, because the D&D nerds alone wouldn't accomplish it)... the term 'Dungeons & Dragons' is known, but little else in that sphere is. 'Drizzt Do'Urden' might be the second-most known. After that... we're talking [i]maybe[/i] the name 'Forgotten Realms', [i]maybe[/i] the name 'Greyhawk', [i]maybe[/i] 'Ravenloft', 'Tomb of Horrors'. But individual cities in any of the campaign settings? Extremely unlikely. So the writers of the D&D movie script could make up a town name and have it have as much meaning to the people in the theater as using a name like 'Waterdeep'. Sure... all the nerds in the crowd might eat up the idea of seeing 'Waterdeep' in screen... but Hasbro won't be going into production strictly with the idea of catering to us. At least not to the original point of Hasbro [b]forcing[/b] WotC to keep releasing Forgotten Realms [i]game product[/i] right now just on the off-chance it might have a slight connection to a film down the road (even if game players are tired of seeing FR used for game product.) I don't think the Hasbro suits are looking NEARLY that close at things in the little D&D division of Wizards of the Coast. I think WotC is releasing Realms product right now, because Realms product is what sells. Despite the claims of some folks here on the boards. [/QUOTE]
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