Second Dungeons & Dragons Product for Fall 2018: Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

dave2008 · Jun 3, 2018

[MENTION=1]Morrus[/MENTION], it seems something has changed to the default text when it is displayed on a black background. It is really hard to read now. Just wanted to give you the heads up!

Abstruse · Jun 3, 2018

dave2008 said:
@Morrus, it seems something has changed to the default text when it is displayed on a black background. It is really hard to read now. Just wanted to give you the heads up!

I just double-checked that the automatic text coloring is set. Something went weird with the article when it was posted and I had to fiddle with it to get it to allow comments. Could you check other posts to see if it's just this one, or if it's site-wide?

Edit: Nevermind, something happened with the code when I inserted the video that left a color change code that didn't close. It should be fixed now.

dave2008 · Jun 3, 2018

Abstruse said:
I just double-checked that the automatic text coloring is set. Something went weird with the article when it was posted and I had to fiddle with it to get it to allow comments. Could you check other posts to see if it's just this one, or if it's site-wide?

Edit: Nevermind, something happened with the code when I inserted the video that left a color change code that didn't close. It should be fixed now.

It is - thanks!

DQDesign · Jun 3, 2018

Staffan said:
Point of order: that would be the third product (not counting things like dice, screens, and such) of 2018. We just got Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes as the first, Waterdeep: Dragon Heist will be the second, and Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage comes in third.

Alternately, the second product announced at the Stream of Many Eyes.

Three products, hundreds of pages, and nothing outside Forgotten Realms.
I'm very disappointed about that.
It is now clear, at least for me, that we will never see anything about some of the oldest and not-so-known settings (like Mystara, for example).
I can understand wotc behaviour, they have to produce books that sell, and FR definetely sells, what I cannot understand is keeping the settings locked on DMsGuild. I'm totally sure that for each wotc boss worried about profit there are a lot of fans willing to develop not profitable settings. I'm one of them.

M.T. Black · Jun 3, 2018

I'm so glad to see an official megadungeon being developed for 5e! I anticipate many hours spent exploring this with my players.

Francisco Grillo · Jun 3, 2018

More Forgoten Realms .... this is getting sickening .

DQDesign · Jun 3, 2018

Francisco Grillo said:
More Forgoten Realms .... this is getting sickening .

Exactly.

hawkeyefan · Jun 3, 2018

I think both books sound excellent. They won’t really work for my current campaign, but they sound like a great combo of adventures and I’ll likely run tham down the road when my current longstanding campaign finally wraps up.

It sounds like each could also be repurposed in a variety of ways so that it would be very easy to mine them for ideas, encounters, villains, and locations.

Francisco Grillo · Jun 3, 2018

DQDesign said:
Three products, hundreds of pages, and nothing outside Forgotten Realms.
I'm very disappointed about that.
It is now clear, at least for me, that we will never see anything about some of the oldest and not-so-known settings (like Mystara, for example).
I can understand wotc behaviour, they have to produce books that sell, and FR definetely sells, what I cannot understand is keeping the settings locked on DMsGuild. I'm totally sure that for each wotc boss worried about profit there are a lot of fans willing to develop not profitable settings. I'm one of them.

I disagree a bit if you create a book like Mordenkainen or Xanathars that contain all the rules for unique classes of all the diferent worlds with specific stuff ... that will sell really well. You really don’t need to make a campaign book.

100% with you about the Dmguild...

exile · Jun 3, 2018

My feelings exactly.

Raunalyn said:
I'm actually pleased by this.

Dragon Heist's concept seemed kind of meh to me, but taken in conjunction with this one, I see the purpose behind it and I've changed my position.

I remember the Undermountain boxed set and being a bit overwhelmed by the size of it. But I am really liking the concept of a city-based campaign that goes from level 1 to 20.

Actually looking forward to this now.

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