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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 7667988" data-attributes="member: 2067">I don't know that I'd agree with this. From where I'm sitting near Hipstertown USA (on the East Coast anyway), nerd culture is pretty hip right now, and that includes D&D. It's a little quaint, a little retro, a little ridiculous, and too much of a time sink for a lot of people (one evening a week is a LOT of time to give up!), but fondly regarded. Grown-ups with actual jobs are having Game of Thrones viewing parties followed by games of D&D. Yuppie parents are bestowing it on their children. It's a thing that folks know about and chuckle about, but are curious about - a world they don't know much about. Where D&D languishes a bit is that there's not a good adult-oriented media property for it. Peter Jackson's movies are sophisticated and high-quality entertainment. Game of Thrones is an HBO show involving violence and drama and death and dongs and dragons. D&D has a kid's show from the '80's, a few good video games from the '90's, that awful movie, and some nostalgia for FR books. The culture's ready. The issue with D&D-branded material is that so much of it is not good, and then what is good tends to be old or only really good if you're 12. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> The game has come out of the basement, but for those people without 4 hrs/week to spend on the BEST expression of D&D, there's not a lot out there for 'em. For them, I don't know that a big-time high-quality video game like Nate's on about is going to do a lot (the competition there is fierce and I don't know that there's a lot of audience to gain there), but shop your high-quality, high-tension action-adventure series to Netflix and you might just have the national pop zeitgeist for a few weeks. A game is kind of a no-brainer, though, and likely something that's easier to do from where they're sitting.It just can't be a mediocre game.</blockquote>

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