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[–] TheOneWithTheHair@ttrpg.network 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

It has merchandised in the past with some success.

DC's Advanced Dungeons and Dragons comic book issue number 5

Back when TSR was sold out from under Gygax's clutch, Lorraine Williams tried some similar marketing, there was a beach towel with Dungeons and Dragons' red dragon in this design:

Red Dragon from the Cover of Holmes' Basic D&D

Only as I recall it, the lettering and dragon were pink. I have never seen it posted online, and I didn't buy one*. I don't know that many sold.

*Of course there was this whole Satanic Panic back then, and why would anyone want to advertise they played D&D at a pool where likely everyone would have given you a bunch of crap for playing "the Devil's game"?

After seeing Forbes write about D&D on multiple occasions, years of RPGs in video games, 50 years of RPGs being in society, a successful movie, and absurdity of the 80s situation gone, it could work now.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 6 points 7 months ago

That DC cover immediately sent me to 90s X-Men in space stories.