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Time will tell hiw this turns out: somewhat surprising that this didn't happen sooner, frankly. Andy Serkis is talented and very dedicated to Tolkien, so there is a chance it could turn out. What they ought to do is reboot LotR as a prestige TV show, 6 seasons, one for each Book of LotR.

No, it doesn't...?

For a lot of AL players, the complaint was that they could not use Races from Volo's or Mordenkainen's at the same time as Subclasses from Xanathar's.

No, not really. Fans were just tired of not being able to use different Races along with new Subclasses or Feats. There wasn't anything broken at all, that's why they did away with Core + 1: it was always about convenience for running organized play, not about power.

It's an homage, but only very loosely. Honestly, as wacky fun as ToEE is...Princes of the Apocalypse is basically mostly just better, and more coherent.

No, the opposite: the gathered secrets are rhe fuel for his ritual.

It could work, but AL decided they didn’t want to anymore. It really isn't a big deal.

As a suggestion. It was never a rule or all that important outside organized play circles. People complained about it for years in those circles to boot. It doesn't signal a "5.5" or anything. It was just a change of a table rule for a shared campaign.

One gets the impression that some folks criticize the campaign book line without being overly familiar?

While you are quite right: An explicit homage to Temple of Elemental Evil Also an explicit homage to the G series. However, in both cases, they are actually pretty original in execution and most material.

And Infinite Staircase is coming out in a minute, too

Indeed, quite the contrary, the past decade is basically the Golden Age of official D&D Adventures: the Peaks are as high as they ever were, and the dips are actually all still quite usable looks askance at 80s TSR products nobody talks about anymore

Y'all realize both Drizzt and Strahd have already had Funko pops, I'm pretty sure?

Yup, that tracks: leaving a job as corporate President for another job as CEO is pretty normal stuff.

The sales trends for 5E were a steady upwards increase from before either Stranger Thifns or Critical Role started, and co tinied steadily on afterwards. Obviously I do not think they hurt 5E, but 5E was successful already before them and there is no particular increase that correlates with this...

That's an AL quirk, doesn't really mean much of anything for the hobby in general.

Right, but there ia no evidence of either Stranger Things or Critical Role causing any spike, rather than being part of the general trend.

1E, 2E and/or Basic would be a bigger gesture, and open up more potential Tualatin revenue for WotC (remember, they still sell all this stuff on DriveThru and Roll20, thar can be expanded). If it was just about 3E and 3 5, they could hash it out in an afternoon. But if they want to write new...

They don't mention 3E or 3.5 at all, but do mention older editions plural. Indeed, the non-existance of other Edition SRDs is what I believe the hold-up is: it will take some work from the design team to make them for other, more popular than 3E editions of the game. "What about the SRDs for...

Well, their greatest strengths is that the overall structure is half-baked so it is easy to remove pieces for other purposes. But then their greatest weakness is that the structure is half-baked and not always easy to juat play out or the hate without some work.