Message:Gygax is the one lost in all this. Seduced by Hollywood, as even Hasbro knows there is more money to be made in the Betty Crocker Ax-Muderer story than in a hundred years of selling easy bake frosted cupcakes.
140 million copies of Hobbit w/ average royalty of a dollar, high and generous, amortized over nearly a hundred years.
vs
Amazon paid 250 million for rights to an appendix for Rings of Power. One fell swoop.
One DnD we can all play in the Meta.
Yours,
IronRed
12-Jan-2023