So, here's another sign, if any were needed, of how D&D is Big Business.
The recent turmoil over Hasbro's decision to revoke, by fiat,* the open license under which other game publishers release D&D-compatible products caused a big enough stir that it got covered by national radio:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/marketplace/id201853034?i=1000602711724
The show in question is MARKETPLACE, hosted by Kai Ryssdal; the D&D piece is the final segment.
It takes up roughly the last five or six minutes of that week's show.
The battle for the Dungeons & Dragons economy,
It's good to see one thing hasn't changed: The enduring truism that D&D is, always has been, and remains a license to print money. This piece also divides the industry into (a) D&D and (b) non-WotC D&D compatibles. That there's a third category, independent RPGs, seems to fall below their radar. Still, it's interesting to see national-wide coverage of what was once our little hobby. It'll be interesting what effect the release of the D&D Movie this week will have.
--John R.
--current reading: the Dunsany/Clarke letters
*since rescinded
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