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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.

I think HAT is really good and easily matches mid tier MCU films in quality. But that wasn't enough.

I seriously doubt anything like this happened. Do you have a source?

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.

Solo is a better movie than most of the post-Endgame MCU.

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...

Only if they abandon their legacy customer base.

Maybe they'll update CoS for D&D 2024. I mean, it works for Skyrim...

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That isn't what any of those words mean. This seems to happen a lot: any "suggestion" (this here is a pertinent word) that WotC did not hit s home run is refrained by WotC fans as an attack. It's exhausting.

I still don't entirely understand what "franchise model" means.

That is a pretty broadly damping definition of clickbait. It suggests that all speculation is ultimately crass and cynical and only exists to lure in the easily duped. And that is obviously not true on its face. I think you are being notably uncharitable here. I just can't figure out why. So I...

What i really think needs to ho is the massive interwoven tapestry of the MCU. I deeply enjoyed it leading up to Endgame, but they will never recapture that, so they should not even try. I want them to let people experiment and put their own spins on these characters and stories. And to be...