D&D 5E Xanathar's Guide to Everything -- new mechanical expansion/UA book! -- November 10 with a limited-edition cover by Hydro74

[Jester David]

Never said it wasn't a successful edition, the issue isn't that itsn't successful, it's that Hasbro is more interested in movies and other deals then they are in producing the TRPG, so they keep the staff minimal, just enough to keep the IP alive, the success if this edition to peanuts to Hasbro.

Hasbro doesn't run D&D. They have their own company to manage. Handling aspects of the brands is the wheelhouse of the WotC CEO. If Hasbro wanted to run D&D the would have taken over the brands and merged with WotC.

Does WotC care little about the D&D RPG? Yeah. But this isn't really a surprise. The entire tabletop RPG industry does $35 million in retail each year. A single movie can do ten times that. (As does MtG).

WotC is a buisness, not a charity. They're not going to put out a book for a few dollars of profit. They're not doing it as a hobby after their day job like other publishers.

 

[Jester David]

It's no longer the D&D RPG. It's the Forgotten Realms RPG.

RIP, D&D.

Y'know, unless you count Curse of Strahd, Tales from the Yawning Portal or 2/3rd of the content in Volo's Guide.

 

[Jester David]

Of course they could, but those higher up the food change have no interest in that.

That would likely be Mearls. After he took over from Slavisek post-Essentials he slashed the number of releases and began focusing on fewer books that would get more attention. Less is more.

 

[Azzy]

It's no longer the D&D RPG. It's the Forgotten Realms RPG.

RIP, D&D.

Oh, get off it!

 

[OrganicDnD]

Any word on new spells or feats being added to this book?

 

[dagger]

Nothing that I could find.

 

[GarrettKP]

Crawford said new spells and new rules for magic items. Did not mention new feats.

 

[MiraMels]

Any word on new spells or feats being added to this book?

It's my understanding that new spells have been confirmed, but no word one way or the other on new feats.

 

[guachi]

Y'know, unless you count Curse of Strahd, Tales from the Yawning Portal or 2/3rd of the content in Volo's Guide.

Tales From the Yawning Portal - where is that portal located, again?

What setting is Volo from again?

I'll give you one product not explicitly linked to the Realms in one way or another. One.

When even products that have no overriding reason to be linked to the Realms are (Monsters, Everything) then it's a reasonable conclusion that D&D supplements have basically become the FR rpg.

 

[OrganicDnD]

Thanks guys. What are the odds we get the new ranger in this book or Tomb of Annilation? I can see them giving us just beast and hunter conclaves in Tomb and moving deep stalker with other subclasses to Xanthers. I just really want to explore a lost jungle island with the new ranger in adventurers league.