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Did you ever notice blatant references to other works in sourcebooks or modules?

Started by BoxCrayonTales, May 30, 2021, 03:06:10 PM

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thedungeondelver

Quote from: Shasarak on May 30, 2021, 11:33:28 PM
Quote from: thedungeondelver on May 30, 2021, 11:31:32 PM
Quote from: Shasarak on May 30, 2021, 11:17:08 PM
Remember that time that World of Warcraft ripped off DnD and is now worth 100 times as much?

Good times, good times.

I don't think that's what the OP meant, sure there are fantasy crossovers but I doubt you're going to see Blizzard release a "Forgotten Realms" expansion or "World of Greyhawk" any time soon (ever).  Blizzard is big...big enough to eat Hasbro whole (75bn market cap for ATVI vs. Hasbro's 14bn) but I don't think they'd be that bold because they'd lose in court.

Everything is directly copied in WoW.

So there's a Greyhawk, a Mordenkainen, a Keep on the Borderlands, a Ravenloft, a Forgotten Realms?  An Elminster, a Dragon of Despair...?  Spheres of Annihilation, some fixed in a green devil face in a Tomb of Horrors? 
THE DELVERS DUNGEON


Mcbobbo sums it up nicely.

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Shasarak

Quote from: thedungeondelver on May 31, 2021, 11:40:31 AM
Quote from: Shasarak on May 30, 2021, 11:33:28 PM
Quote from: thedungeondelver on May 30, 2021, 11:31:32 PM
Quote from: Shasarak on May 30, 2021, 11:17:08 PM
Remember that time that World of Warcraft ripped off DnD and is now worth 100 times as much?

Good times, good times.

I don't think that's what the OP meant, sure there are fantasy crossovers but I doubt you're going to see Blizzard release a "Forgotten Realms" expansion or "World of Greyhawk" any time soon (ever).  Blizzard is big...big enough to eat Hasbro whole (75bn market cap for ATVI vs. Hasbro's 14bn) but I don't think they'd be that bold because they'd lose in court.

Everything is directly copied in WoW.

So there's a Greyhawk, a Mordenkainen, a Keep on the Borderlands, a Ravenloft, a Forgotten Realms?  An Elminster, a Dragon of Despair...?  Spheres of Annihilation, some fixed in a green devil face in a Tomb of Horrors?

Exactly.
Who da Drow?  U da drow! - hedgehobbit

There will be poor always,
pathetically struggling,
look at the good things you've got! -  Jesus