I have played this campaign, bantered in the same fashion as them, and we did something like that one thing to our Barbarian’s axe no more than fourteen hours ago. DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES is absolutely pandering to me, and my only regret is probably that there’s only going to be one of these flicks, because I cannot sustain an entire movie subgenre on my own.
Then again, I had a similar reaction to GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS. I figured that GODZILLA VS. KONG was gonna tank, because the first one kinda did, but I didn’t care because it was already in post-production and there’d be no point to not releasing it somewhere*. So maybe there’s more people out there like me than I think?
#commissionearned
Moe Lane
*Yes, this was pre-BATGIRL. Counterpoint: GODZILLA VS. KONG didn’t suck.
The most pressing question is how many normies will this bring in to make up for the fans still cheesed at the OGL release?
Can I be normie and a cheesed fan at the same time?
I don’t see why not. Any half decent player should be able to sustain that sort of split between “character view” and “player view.”
I won’t even ask which one is which for you!
Godzilla vs. Kong never threatened to lower the value of the franchise. (I also happened to like Godzilla: King of the Monsters. Plus the soundtrack is excellent.)
As I understand it, Batgirl was bad enough that it threatened to pull down the value that could be gotten from the rest of the extended franchise. If that is true — and I have no way to know for sure one way or the other — then not releasing it was really the right thing to do.