Gonna use this post to date this theory so that when it happens I can point at it like Leo in OUATIH.
I think CR is gonna try and buy DND out from Hasbro. Not today or next year but in the future. That’s the goal.
All of their choice’s lately make sense with this in mind.
- The continued support for DnD even though DH is such a success.
- The multi year (like it’s gonna be a 4-5 year campaign) format of C4 being done in DnD, in order to keep interest and buzz.
- Bringing on BLMulligan, the man who famously runs mostly DND and who is perhaps the game’s most ardent defender and advocate
- hiring the two faces of dnd to not only make DH content but to continue to make more content for the game they spent decades working on.
Everything they are doing is to make money and build reputation in order to one day buy out the game they single handedly help make the most influential ttrpg of this generation.
Taylor swift just did something similar in order to buy back her songs and I think they are following suit. Like I said, it’s gonna be years in the making and I have absolutely no proof but I think that is the path CR is forging.