7 Years of D&D Stories? And a "Big Reveal" Coming?

HobbitFan · Mar 13, 2015

Somthing funny....Chris answer about a big revel coming up from marketing was in response to my tweet. And I didn't realize he responded until I read about it here!

That's funny...I hadn't even checked twitter when I got home or anything.

Staffan · Mar 13, 2015

bmfrosty said:
It worked out better than the OGL I'd say. With the OGL, they're still competing with their licensees.

Licensees that, at least in part, chose to stick with a slightly modified version of 3.5 because Wizards were being non-cooperative with the GSL.

TarionzCousin · Mar 13, 2015

Mistwell said:

tl;dr Mistwell is giving out $500 to everyone on EN World.

bmfrosty · Mar 13, 2015

Staffan said:
Licensees that, at least in part, chose to stick with a slightly modified version of 3.5 because Wizards were being non-cooperative with the GSL.

Were we discussing what was good for WotC, or what was good for gamers?

TarionzCousin · Mar 13, 2015

HobbitFan said:
Somthing funny....Chris answer about a big revel coming up....

Wait, a "revel"? Apparently Mr. Perkins was talking about a party that the Marketing Department was having. :erm:

Staffan · Mar 13, 2015

bmfrosty said:
Were we discussing what was good for WotC, or what was good for gamers?

Good for Wizards. If they had said from day one that 4e would continue the success of 3e in being released under the OGL, Paizo might never have decided to create the Pathfinder game, or at least they might have provided parallel support for 4e. Certainly, other publishers would have chosen to stick with the thing being published as "D&D" rather than an untried brand.

fjw70 · Mar 13, 2015

Manchu said:
LOL I bet "big reveal in the works" refers to a licensed product.

Hopefully it's pdfs of their 5e products. Or some non-cloud based electronic version of the books.

JeffB · Mar 13, 2015

I stopped being excited about anything 5e months ago.

7 years of stories worked up, but they cannot produce a decent standalone adventure module for sale this year.

Manchu · Mar 13, 2015

Staffan said:
I don't get why people act as if books written by freelancers is something new for D&D.

Staffan, my point was actually that not everything published by WotC is made by WotC employees.

bmfrosty · Mar 13, 2015

Staffan said:
Good for Wizards. If they had said from day one that 4e would continue the success of 3e in being released under the OGL, Paizo might never have decided to create the Pathfinder game, or at least they might have provided parallel support for 4e. Certainly, other publishers would have chosen to stick with the thing being published as "D&D" rather than an untried brand.

Your argument is that switching from OGL to SGL is the reason that the Paizo took over as the leading D&D system under a new name. My argument is that nobody could have done that had WotC not put D&D under something as open as the OGL.

OGL was definitely good for gamers who didn't want move on to buying 4e products and wanted to stay with 3e products instead, but at the same time, it made WotC wonder where the hell all of their customers went.

I think that neither Hasbro nor WotC would allow that sort of license to happen again.

I don't think they want to be competing with ShmathFinder in 20 years if they decide to dispense with 5e at some point.