Drizzt Do'Urden and the big budget misuse of licensing

Opinion by Matt S.

Late last year, Wizards of the Coast, in collaboration with Tuque Games, announced Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance. As a long-awaited new entry in a beloved action RPG series from the PlayStation 2 era (not to be confused with the likes of Baldur’s Gate, Dark Alliance was more akin to Diablo), Tuque’s announcement had one additional surprise: It would also be about Drizzt Do‘Urden, a renegade Dark Elf and the protagonist of a 30+ book series from author R.A. Salvatore.

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