These screencaps were posted by GM Leigh (of Mage Productions) on Twitter after being showed on WotC's Twitch stream, presented by Kate Welch and Nathan Stewart. Note the old Saltmarsh trilogy references!
I should drink some coffee when waking up this early before posting, my apologies for the snarkiness above. Being tired and half asleep means I need to be aware of things that normally don’t bother me, might and not fire off replies before thinking them through better. Sorry DQD!
Yup. If they're doing something like one chapter per file in, say, InDesign and haven't combined the chapters into a "book" yet, the page numbers should be based on the chapter alone.It was numbered sequentially. I think the pages from the preview havnt been merge yet with the rest of the chapters in the full book hence the numbering or the chapter was extracted and has its own numbering.
The AI book is licensed, but not a WotC or official book. If it counts, so does Dungeonomicon and the Endless Quest books.
I hope they don’t plan on having three fall releases all the time. That didn’t seem to help sales or interest in Dungeon of the Mad Mage. There was a lot of competition for sales this past winter.
And, really, now is the time they should be slowing the release schedule, not ramping it up. Many gamers are close to saturation.
The AI book is an official WotC book. WotC's publishing it, and the editorial and production staff are all WotC.
Where is this stated?
I know two people working on the post-creative side of the project. It's a WotC-published book with PA providing the written content and most of the art.
This. One of the early claims of 5E was that weak critters remained a threat to more potent characters due to the "bounded accuracy" math. So, 20 kobolds against a single 10th level fighter (in, say, an arena) would be fair to tough, actually. In a dungeon setting, it's a way to bleed a 3rd level spell slot from the wizard.I strong disagree. It might be encounter design not to your taste, but it is absolutely NOT bad.