D&D (2024) Wargamer Takes Shot At WotC for Not Respecting Forgotten Realms Canon.

Azzy said:
Oh? Do we actually know anything about what they're doing with Cormyr or the Purple Dragon Knights beyond this subclass that has very little lore attached to it? Have they done any videos on the subject? Because, if not, I'm just thinking it's a little soon to determine what's going one way or another without more information.
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The book isn’t out four half a year. It’s way to soon to start putting out videos.

But it’s blindingly obvious that WotC are going to want to cash in on the massive popularity of the Fourth Wing books, and the easiest way is to drop it into the FR as the catch-all setting.

Lore exists to serve the game, so it will be changed to suit. WotC are not interested in being a fake-history publisher. They aren’t going to respond to any demands to change that, any more than they would respond to demands to become an automobile manufacturer.
 
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Paul Farquhar said:
The book isn’t out four half a year. It’s way to soon to start putting out videos.

But it’s blindingly obvious that WotC are going to want to cash in on the massive popularity of the Fourth Wing books, and the easiest way is to drop it into the FR as the catch-all setting.
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Nah, WotC didn't even cash-in on DaDHAT, I'll believe it when I see it.
Paul Farquhar said:
Lore exists to serve the game, so it will be changed to suit. WotC are not interested in being a fake-history publisher. They aren’t going to respond to any demands to change that, any more than they would respond to demands to become an automobile manufacturer.
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But all this is entirely speculative.
 


Paul Farquhar said:
I guess you missed the memo, HAT was not “massively popular”.
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They should have had something ready to go long before the movie was released. Also, though it under-performed at the box office, movie-goers and critics alike rated it highly and it's been doing good on streaming services.
Paul Farquhar said:
Not as highly speculative as the idea that the lore for the PDK doesn’t match the lore in the FR book!
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That, I agree with.
 

Azzy said:
Oh? Do we actually know anything about what they're doing with Cormyr or the Purple Dragon Knights beyond this subclass that has very little lore attached to it? Have they done any videos on the subject? Because, if not, I'm just thinking it's a little soon to determine what's going one way or another without more information.
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There are some hints in the description of the second Fallbacks novel, forthcoming, thst suggest that the modern Purple Dragon Knights will be involved.
 

Azzy said:
They should have had something ready to go long before the movie was released. Also, though it under-performed at the box office, movie-goers and critics alike rated it highly and it's been doing good on streaming services
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The movie might have benefited from that a little, but it wouldn’t have done anything for D&D sales. Anyway, they did put out a few bits on DDB, I’m sure there would have been more had it been a hit. There is BG3 stuff all over the new core rulebooks.
 


Parmandur said:
Big difference between Honor Among Thieves not being fully sold by Paramoint and Hasbro, and the WotC design team deciding they should take some inspiration from the current big seller in the literary fantasy genre.
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I'm just not convinced that WotC is competent or aware enough to grasp the current fantasy zeitgeist in a timely or relevant manner.
 


I'm A Banana said:
"Don't talk about it here on the D&D discussion site, tell them directly instead" is a pretty weird thing to tell someone on this D&D discussion site.
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Hardly.

Every communication has an audience. If you want to tell WotC "it doesn't work like that," as you contended above, the audience is WotC. WotC is not here.

So, make up your mind what you really want to do - tell WotC stuff, or discuss stuff with other fans. They are fundamentally different communications.

I'm A Banana said:
Is this the battle that you want to pick? That folks shouldn't criticize this bit of D&D here on a D&D discussion site? Or would you agree that it's OK to criticize this bit of D&D here on this D&D discussion site and that folks are not unreasonable to do so?
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It is fine to criticize any bit of D&D you wish. But how you go about it matters.
And you can't use "feedback to WotC" as a justification of how you go about it, when you aren't actually talking to WotC!

Like, after a bad day at work, you may go to a bar and unload your troubles a bit to folks there willing to listen. But if you get in people's faces about it, you can't use, "but someone has to tell off that vendor I have to work with," as an excuse.
 

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