Note: this is in Geek Media because I am interested in folks' preferences beyond RPGs. This thread is about RPGs, but also board games and card games and video games and all the genres and sub genres within those media.
So what sort of games do you like? Not just medium wise, but genre and...
Today I went to my FLG/CS (that isn't so Local since I moved) and bought the Alien RPG Evolved Edition. I have always liked the game but never owned it in dead tree before, and since Alien: Earth I have strongly considered running it for a short campaign or convention campaign.
For me, the most disappointing aspect of Troy was the lack of supernatural elements. So I am perfectly happy to.endure Nolan's color pallette and sense of style for an Odyssey with God's and stuff.
I wasn't saying WotC will do that. I was making a joke about formerly creative companies going back to the well over and over again as well as "refining" their successful formula into obsolescence.
This last bit doesn't track because the movies you cited made tons of money during the same stage of the pandemic.
D&D is not a huge draw at the theater. It's okay to accept that.
There is no way that there were enough people that knew about, much less cared about, the OGL debacle to significantly impact the box office success of HAT.
HAT failed at the box office because as big as D&D is relatively speaking, it is still niche compared to things like the MCU, Star Wars or...