Marathon, Broadway, and Catacomb: Upcoming D&D Products?

pukunui · Nov 23, 2017

Staffan said:
Assuming the information about Broadway and Labyrinth both being big adventures and released only two months apart is true, it would sound likely that they're a two-part adventure much like Hoard of the Dragon Queen + Rise of Tiamat.

I think it's kind of useless to speculate on the contents of a product based on a single word that may or may not be related in hindsight. I mean, sure, Cloak = Vampire and Dagger = Shakespearean giants... you can make sense of it after the fact, but that's some Law of Fives-level justification.

Indeed. I mean, it's entirely possible that they codenamed SKT "Dagger" simply because they'd codenamed the previous one "Cloak" so they could have a little chuckle about "cloak and dagger".

[MENTION=6780330]Parmandur[/MENTION]: Could you please get back to me regarding the PMs I've sent you pertaining to comments you've made in this thread?

Parmandur · Nov 23, 2017

Staffan said:
Assuming the information about Broadway and Labyrinth both being big adventures and released only two months apart is true, it would sound likely that they're a two-part adventure much like Hoard of the Dragon Queen + Rise of Tiamat.

I think it's kind of useless to speculate on the contents of a product based on a single word that may or may not be related in hindsight. I mean, sure, Cloak = Vampire and Dagger = Shakespearean giants... you can make sense of it after the fact, but that's some Law of Fives-level justification.

Considering that they just stated they wouldn't be doing something like Hoard/Tiamat again, even if it is two adventures I expect they will be distinct.

Parmandur · Nov 23, 2017

pukunui said:
Indeed. I mean, it's entirely possible that they codenamed SKT "Dagger" simply because they'd codenamed the previous one "Cloak" so they could have a little chuckle about "cloak and dagger".

[MENTION=6780330]Parmandur[/MENTION]: Could you please get back to me regarding the PMs I've sent you pertaining to comments you've made in this thread?

The Shakespeare connection was because Perkins kept mentioning it at Cons and such, so the codename had a Shakespearean loose connection, though it told nothing about the AP itself.

Apologies about that, can't see my PMs on the App, lemme see if I can access those.

pukunui · Nov 23, 2017

Parmandur said:
The Shakespeare connection was because Perkins kept mentioning it at Cons and such, so the codename had a Shakespearean loose connection, though it told nothing about the AP itself.

OK. I wasn't aware of that. I don't attend any cons, living on the other side of the world as I do. Still, I'm guessing their first thought was "cloak and dagger" ...

Apologies about that, can't see my PMs on the App, lemme see if I can access those.

Thanks. I wondered if maybe that was the case. But I was kind of in panic mode yesterday, so I assumed you were deliberately ignoring me.

pukunui · Nov 23, 2017

Parmandur said:
Considering that they just stated they wouldn't be doing something like Hoard/Tiamat again, even if it is two adventures I expect they will be distinct.

That was my thought too.

I'm more inclined to think that Catacomb is not an adventure, though.

Parmandur · Nov 23, 2017

pukunui said:
OK. I wasn't aware of that. I don't attend any cons, living on the other side of the world as I do. Still, I'm guessing their first thought was "cloak and dagger" ...

Thanks. I wondered if maybe that was the case. But I was kind of in panic mode yesterday, so I assumed you were deliberately ignoring me.

No worries, I legitimately thought nobody was PMing me this whole time?

For sure, Cloak & Dagger was in their mind: Perkins would Tweet about a Year inspired Giant story, which is in SKT even if I would call it a minor note.

pukunui · Nov 23, 2017

Parmandur said:
No worries, I legitimately thought nobody was PMing me this whole time?

That's all right.

For sure, Cloak & Dagger was in their mind: Perkins would Tweet about a Year inspired Giant story, which is in SKT even if I would call it a minor note.

I do recall him saying there were some vague Shakespeare connections, but not that the codename "Dagger" itself had them. But it's all good. I do wish SKT had more overt Shakespearean connections, but that's a topic for another thread.

Eltab · Nov 23, 2017

Wild guesses

Broadway:
- the road to hell is broad but the road to heaven is narrow. Welcome to the Lower Planes!
- an adventure based on Phantom of the Opera.
- world-building material inspired by 3e City of Splendors: Waterdeep

Marathon:
- something Classical Greek flavored, using Bulfinch's Mythology to describe personalities and activities *personal favorite*
- long adventure that has a LOT of travel involved and not easy to bring to an end
- Battle of Helms Deep (as seen in the movie) for 5e

Catacomb:
- Another adventure set in some famous dead (we think) guy's tomb
- designing your own dungeons
- Menzobarranzan / Drow, the OotA chapter was just a teaser for this classic location

Eltab · Nov 23, 2017

Sacrosanct said:
I think the proof is obvious.

I think I need an aspirin.
Because you have just elucidated Excedrin Headache Number SQRT(-PI).

Enevhar Aldarion · Nov 24, 2017

Catacomb would be too obvious a name, but remember how they did an event at a convention earlier this year where everyone in the room worked together to design a mega-dungeon, and afterward, either Mearls or Crawford said they would find some way to package it up and release it for sale to the general playing population.

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