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"Stream of Many Eyes" -- WotC To Announce New Storyline In June
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<blockquote data-quote="GloomyGus" data-source="post: 7744470" data-attributes="member: 6914380"><p>As long as we're speculating wildly, here's my attempt at a grand unified theory:</p><p></p><p>In the past, Mike Mearls has remarked that he considers himself to be in the "happiness business", or something to that effect. So he thinks of his goal as trying to make everybody happy when possible. If they're going to expand into a new setting, however, this presents a problem: when you pick a particular setting, you automatically make some people happy and other people unhappy. If you start putting out books on Dark Sun, the people who really wanted Eberron are going to be disappointed, and vice versa.</p><p></p><p>The way around this would be to create a book with multiple settings instead of just one. That way they could expand into Dark Sun, and Eberron, and Planescape and Spelljammer and Ravenloft and whatever else. This way they make as many people happy as possible. This also fits into comments about opening up the DM's guild, since presumably all of these settings would be valid for DM's guild content.</p><p></p><p>They also don't release books that focus only on one side of the screen anymore, and an all-settings book would fit pretty well with that idea. In addition to broad setting information, they could easily fit Psionics into this book, and include a few new races and class features to support all these new settings. Mystics and Artificers would fit in there, Warforged or Kender could go there, backgrounds associated with Planescape factions could go in there. It would be really easy to make that kind of book fit the current 5e book model.</p><p></p><p>Lastly, a book like that would be an absolutely massive expansion to the game. It would dramatically shake things up, and would probably be one of the most important books that they've ever released. For many players, it would be as important as the original three core books. They might want to hire a new member of the creative team in advance of a book like that. And for such an important book, I expect they would want to do a big, dramatic announcement with plenty of hype. Like a huge expensive liveshow, for instance.</p><p></p><p>Or they could just be hyping up a book about Undermountain, I guess that's possible too.</p><p></p><p>One more thought, for people who follow Dice, Camera Action: In the past, Chris Perkins has based each season of the show on whatever the hot new campaign book happened to be. They touched on Curse of Strahd, Storm King's Thunder, and Tomb of Annihilation. The new season premiered last night, and there was no hint that they were going to base this season on any particular campaign book. Maybe the campaign isn't going to take place in one single setting, this time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GloomyGus, post: 7744470, member: 6914380"] As long as we're speculating wildly, here's my attempt at a grand unified theory: In the past, Mike Mearls has remarked that he considers himself to be in the "happiness business", or something to that effect. So he thinks of his goal as trying to make everybody happy when possible. If they're going to expand into a new setting, however, this presents a problem: when you pick a particular setting, you automatically make some people happy and other people unhappy. If you start putting out books on Dark Sun, the people who really wanted Eberron are going to be disappointed, and vice versa. The way around this would be to create a book with multiple settings instead of just one. That way they could expand into Dark Sun, and Eberron, and Planescape and Spelljammer and Ravenloft and whatever else. This way they make as many people happy as possible. This also fits into comments about opening up the DM's guild, since presumably all of these settings would be valid for DM's guild content. They also don't release books that focus only on one side of the screen anymore, and an all-settings book would fit pretty well with that idea. In addition to broad setting information, they could easily fit Psionics into this book, and include a few new races and class features to support all these new settings. Mystics and Artificers would fit in there, Warforged or Kender could go there, backgrounds associated with Planescape factions could go in there. It would be really easy to make that kind of book fit the current 5e book model. Lastly, a book like that would be an absolutely massive expansion to the game. It would dramatically shake things up, and would probably be one of the most important books that they've ever released. For many players, it would be as important as the original three core books. They might want to hire a new member of the creative team in advance of a book like that. And for such an important book, I expect they would want to do a big, dramatic announcement with plenty of hype. Like a huge expensive liveshow, for instance. Or they could just be hyping up a book about Undermountain, I guess that's possible too. One more thought, for people who follow Dice, Camera Action: In the past, Chris Perkins has based each season of the show on whatever the hot new campaign book happened to be. They touched on Curse of Strahd, Storm King's Thunder, and Tomb of Annihilation. The new season premiered last night, and there was no hint that they were going to base this season on any particular campaign book. Maybe the campaign isn't going to take place in one single setting, this time. [/QUOTE]
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