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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8841198" data-attributes="member: 7006"><p>The only thing I disagree with is the idea that anything that is written for any of the D&D books are due to them needing to be ready for some television or movie thing.</p><p></p><p>That's been a clarion call for years now. "Oh, WotC's doing A, B, & C because Hasbro's expanding out the D&D media empire and they need X, Y & Z set up to make things work!" And that has not once ever actually been the case. We have an actual D&D movie coming out in March and there was not a single thing in any of the books of Dungeons & Dragons that were adjusted or changed by or for the movie. Any potential things for any tv or film media can and will use bits and pieces of things from what has already been created over the last 50 years... but nothing is going to be changed in D&D in order to "help" make things work in some mythical media project that might occur somewhere down the line.</p><p></p><p>So long story short... the designers of the D&D RPG are under no requirements to do anything in preparation for any sort of TV or film media need, and they will not waste their time trying to jerry-rig things in the game to make them more "media usable". Because the long tail of creating tv and film media assures us that you <em>can't plan in the short term</em> around the long term of tv and film. Things change too often and take too many years to come to fruition. All WotC can do is decide <em>after</em> the release of some media thing to perhaps incorporate something from it into the game at a later date and in a later product.</p><p></p><p>Marvel Comics did nothing whatsoever in their books to help "plan" for any of the films in the MCU. However, they did take a few things from the MCU after the fact and incorporate them into their books going forward (like Agent Colson for example.) And D&D is and will be the exact same way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 8841198, member: 7006"] The only thing I disagree with is the idea that anything that is written for any of the D&D books are due to them needing to be ready for some television or movie thing. That's been a clarion call for years now. "Oh, WotC's doing A, B, & C because Hasbro's expanding out the D&D media empire and they need X, Y & Z set up to make things work!" And that has not once ever actually been the case. We have an actual D&D movie coming out in March and there was not a single thing in any of the books of Dungeons & Dragons that were adjusted or changed by or for the movie. Any potential things for any tv or film media can and will use bits and pieces of things from what has already been created over the last 50 years... but nothing is going to be changed in D&D in order to "help" make things work in some mythical media project that might occur somewhere down the line. So long story short... the designers of the D&D RPG are under no requirements to do anything in preparation for any sort of TV or film media need, and they will not waste their time trying to jerry-rig things in the game to make them more "media usable". Because the long tail of creating tv and film media assures us that you [I]can't plan in the short term[/I] around the long term of tv and film. Things change too often and take too many years to come to fruition. All WotC can do is decide [I]after[/I] the release of some media thing to perhaps incorporate something from it into the game at a later date and in a later product. Marvel Comics did nothing whatsoever in their books to help "plan" for any of the films in the MCU. However, they did take a few things from the MCU after the fact and incorporate them into their books going forward (like Agent Colson for example.) And D&D is and will be the exact same way. [/QUOTE]
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