Will the multiverse adventure modules where the party has adventures with the Turtles, Spongebob, Transformers and Marvel heroes make the D&D line go up?
>>98059237Official "stat them" content sounds good. On that note, has Large Magical Beast-faggot killed himself yet?
>>98059237Not likely. These a liable to cost more for the license than they make from sales. This reeks of out of touch executive mandate.
>>98059302>These a liable to cost more for the license than they make from sales.I can guarantee that Ted is paying them.
>>98059237>make the D&D line go up?they way it's positioned the line will go up even if they do literally nothingadd on top of that targeting people with bad spending habits and a love of pop culture and yes, line will go up for them by a noticeable amount
>>98059334>muh too big to fail rationaleI implore you to put your money where your mouth is, and invest your life savings into Hasbro stocks.
>>98059237They've already had multiple official modules for other settings from obscure stuff like fafhrd and the gray mouser to normiecore like Rick and Morty
>>98059237I guess it's less of a problem for D&D which is all about making new settings, than Magic cramming that shit right next to its strict fantasy aesthetic
>>98059237Retarded, I’m not surprised I’m just appalled.
Come home, white man.
>>98060532ThisWould've happened earlier too if they didn't lose the licenses for Elric or Lovecraft's stuff to Chaosium in the 80's. Didn't they do Buck Rodgers or was that its own separate game? I think it's more of a problem for MtG because if you want good cards, you'll NEED to accept Spongebob or Donatello into your deck if they're good enough and you want to win, in an RPG you don't need to include Spider-man if you don't want to, unless it's like the literal Marvel game
>>98061781>in an RPG you don't need to include Spider-man if you don't want toThere's probably a team of people pondering how to force that on you rn
>>98060532Fafhrd and Gray Mouser was a big part of 70s Sword-and-Sorcery. They exist for the same reason Conan got stated up multiple times in Dragon magazine. Inclusion was pandering to D&D's existing target audience not trying to attract an outside audience to D&D.>>98061781>Would've happened earlier too if they didn't lose the licenses for Elric or Lovecraft's stuff to Chaosium in the 80's.Not really. The stuff TSR did was including things their existing customers liked while what Hasbro is talking about doing is using collab stuff to try and bait in new customers.>Didn't they do Buck Rodgers or was that its own separate game?Buck Rodgers was its own game that existed because the head of TSR was the owner of the IP.
>>98059237It's hilarious because WoTC is banking on brand addicts and scalpers, except the first group is rapidly dying out due to economic bs and the second group will fuck off the moment they realize that nobody want Spongbub in MTG and they have three pallettes of that shit in storage.
>>98059237depends on the type of crossover they pull>dark fantasy adventure, delve into Tristram cathedral to fight Diablokino, im sold>go on a snappy marvel humor adventure with Rick and Mortyfuck my life, please no
>>98059237This could (and under competent leadership would) be an absolute slam dunk. But it won't be.Look at MtG's Beyond! Walking Dead collab looong after the hype. Random Spider-Man-only set... I know /tg/ hates Rosewater but he talks about ARC's problems and Hasbro keeps dead set on repeating all of them. Retarded shit.
Ha ha, time to play GURPS!
>>98061719Dude, I left Dildos and Dragqueens before they even got rid of half-elves to please the woke fags. (Their third biggest race behind humans and Elves. Sometimes even beating elves) Though I admit mostly play ACKS over C&C but would be up to find a group to try it out and all.
>>98059237D&D isn't, and was never meant to handle simulating settings outside of high fantasy. Twenty years of attempting otherwise have proved it.
>>98062173To be fair if WOTC wasn't retarded with woke fags and tourists trying to sell their political view in the game over just making a game for people to play. They could be swimming in cash. However, between letting the woke in cause they weren't in beforehand even after they admitted they don't care about they just want to push their views into the game and take over what they think is a right wing game and plant their flag on it. Then whine when everyone doesn't support it and leaves for other things often trying to get into the next big thing that grew cause of them killing off the last big IP. (This is why they keep trying to get control of anime after killing off most Marvel/DC and Hollywood with their queer shit.)
>>98062206Well, WOTC is a skin suit of it's former self. If they didn't purge the old heads who are gamers. They could made a "Sci-fi" TTRPG or a "Hero" one that work like D&D but enough differences to give it a new name and new books. Latching on D&D name on their new systems without ruining it if it was to fail. However, after they basically let the woke in and got kick out via HR BS and the corpos think the IP name alone will sell their game. So went with the cheaper and often political safer new hires and betas who basically do all the work for half the pay. Though it sounds like they learning the woke don't pay for shit and demand everything for just being hired and gay/woman/black/etc. So sounds like they're slowly trying to purge and beg for the old heads back. (The whole dropping 5.5 and making 6e months after dropping the core books.) Though it sounds like more of WOTC last chance before being drop and they will just license D&D off to anyone who will pay for it and all.
>>98059279You think it's a one guy?
>Great danger has befallen Bikini Bottom, our heroes must assemble and stop Plankton who has joined forces with Vecna, from Stranger Things, along with Bane, from Batman, and also some guy from the forgotten realms whose name we forgot, he's just a tutorial boss, will they prevail or will the Krabby Patty recipe forever fall into the wrong hands?
Forgotten Realms is already a garbage dump of fantasy tropes. It's got robots & space ships, dark souls & Twilight vampires, pirates & Lovecraftian fishfolk. Name one thing FR could add that'd be more immersion breaking than the fake hologram moon that hides the real moon? It ain't MLP or TF.
>>98059237D&D would easily pull this out, if it was a good flexible system with clear design goals.
>>98062414Kingdom Hearts already exists, and Interstitial is already a fine attempt at making it work at the table top.
>>98059279>Large Magical Beast-faggotNewfag or third+ layer of irony?
>>98061781>do Buck Rodgers or was that its own separate game?Didn't that only happen due to the TSR CEO owning the Buck Rogers IP
>>98059237Isn't this basically what they were doing in the early-mid 2000s with the licensed stuff they were doing?
>>98062131There was Diablo DnD setting, in 3rd ed
>>98062666and i bet a good solid 99,9% of current Hasbro customer base never engaged with it and doesnt even know it exist. So it might as well not exist. But with one of the head honchos of World of Warcraft now being in a leading position at Wizards, a new Blizzard crossover might not be that unlikely after all
>>98059237There is no fucking way this will be profitable on an RPG. RPGs in general suck as a means of making money. You can buy one book when you're 12 and play entirely off of that until you die of old age.
>>98062794Technically that applies to lots of hobbies, but people usually want to "get more serious" after a while.
>>98060532There’s a massive difference between publishing official d&d materials for a fictional setting that d&d was based on/inspired by, and publishing official d&d materials for pop-culture things entirely unrelated to the soul and genesis of d&d.People who cannot discern that difference for themselves are the exact demographic of retard consoomer that WotC and Hasbro prey on.
>>98062723there was also a richard and mortimor crossover for 5th already, but who fucking knew about that either
>>98059237Yes! We're finally going to get the Golden Girls crossover that /tg/ has always wanted! Thank you Hasbro!
>>98059237>tedNobody in boston is literate enough to plat d&d
>>98063278Blanche subclass Old Ho Points mechanic is too op, even the optional rule where you have to mime the sex act with the npc(s) isn’t enough of a cost for the too generous benefits in and out of combat
>>98059237I haven't given a shit about what anyone did with ""official"" D&D content since back in the 3.5 days. Let that sink in, faggot.
>>98063278Bea Arthur was already in Star Wars so wouldn't even be that far fetched to be honest.
>>98063417>3.5Daaaaaaaam not even the pathfinderfags want to fuck with you or your bullshit
TTRPGs are like the one thing that "If you don't like it don't use it" is completly valid for because you have complete control over what actually happens at your own table. This isn't MtG where you might need a sideboard plan for Spider-Man, you can just not put something in your game or be an adult and tell a player to cut that shit out if they do something you don't like. WotC will not send the Pinkertons to your door if you don't buy the Heated Rivalry campaign setting.
>>98063417unironically, 3.x is actually pretty dogshit.
>>98063501>WotC will not send the Pinkertons to your door if you don't buy the Heated Rivalry campaign setting.they'd surely try
>>98062201It really leaving when you are too retarded to even play? Because looks like yo were never there.
>>98063501It could mean diverting resources from actual settings like Forgotten Realms to crossover slop, but it's not like we've had anything noteworthy in a long ass time anyway
>>98065500The coolest thing in the last 10 years was that splatbook where all the major bad guy factions hypothetically “won” in faerun, but even that was a little underwhelming
>Heres a way to introduce Xenomorphs and Predators into a D&D campaign, have fun>Oh you want a ruleset that adds in a horde of Deadites in place of zombies, yeah man here i would be so down for this make your rules odd, but not at the cost of the world.
>>98059302You're the one whose out of touch unironically. The modern d&d fanbase will absolutely eat that shit up just like they did with mtg. Anyone with self respect stopped giving wotc money decades ago.
>>98059237DnDrones get what they fucking deserve.
>>98059237It’ll work. Anyone with even a bit of self respect walked away from wizards a long time ago.
>>98065673>The modern d&d fanbase will absolutely eat that shit up just like they did with mtg.The D&D and MtG stuff is different. The mainline UB sets were bought by two different audiences: the active MtG players and the collab IP fans. The collab IP fan purchases were in addition to the MtG player purchases.The D&D UB stuff only has one audience: fans of the collab IP. There is no reason for any non-fan of the collab IP to look at a D&D collab product. This has been true for every previous time WotC has put out one of these crossover products.>>98065842No, it won't. The first few products might create a minor spike, but afterwards they will join the piles of dead licensed RPG product released over the decades.
>>98065859>The D&D UB stuff only has one audience: fans of the collab IPNot necessarily true. They just need to put a bunch of important rules in there so they force the kind of faggots who MUST HAVE THE BOOK or some SHIT to buy it.
>>98065875Won't work in the long run. 2e D&D collapsed partially because they tried doing that with campaign settings and it only made things worse.
>>98065610>The party gets kidnapped by predators and has to survive a huntThat could be good, wich is why it will never happen
>>98061815Have you heard of Paranoia 2nd edition? It had a metaplot that crossed over with several RPGs that was pretty badly received but it also gave rules for running the game with cyberpunk characters.
>>98063278I haven't been this excited since the Dallas TTRPG
>>98062448>It ain't MLP or TF.Don't those two have their own TTRPG's already too? Anyone who'd be interested could just buy those instead, which are actually built and catered towards the settings and the intended audiences
>>98059460If there were separate Wizards of the Coast stocks I'd probably buy them. But it literally doesn't matter how profitable a division is when the parent company wants to burn money
