D&D General WotC Asks What Makes YOU Play Dungeons and Dragons?

WotC has a new survey asking about what you want from D&D -- "Extra extra! The D&D team wants to know what makes YOU play Dungeons & Dragons! The open world? Character customization? Shared storytelling with friends? Iconic art? Take our survey and help shape the future of what we're working on at Wzards. Please share to help us spread the word and hear from more fans."

https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/5231853/pas?sglocale=en

 

[darjr]

The first WFB boxed set bore a big resemblance to the D&D boxed set of the time for a reason. It WAS a response and a bit derivative of D&D. Though I think it was different from D&D on purpose.

 

[pogre]

At 90% completion they asked me my age. I told them 52 and boom survey complete, lol.

Me too! Now, I am curious about the questions people got after giving their age.

 

[TwoSix]

ANd YAY!! Warlords!!!!

Considering how many class polls we've had lately, I think we need a poll of "What classes did you fill in on the WotC survey."

 

[Dragonblade]

I'm curious about what other people chose as their favorite sourcebooks of all time. I picked the Ravenloft Campaign Setting (red box) but there are at least 2-3 other 2e books that are also huge contenders for me.

Tome of Battle and its not even close. Greatest D&D sourcebook of all time, hands down.

 

[ad_hoc]

Agreed. I got the feeling it was aimed at the D&D Online crowd etc.

It just surprised me - I'm an old fossil!

I think it just makes sense when you're asking someone's opinion on aspects of a game to ensure that they have actually played that game.

 

[ad_hoc]

Tome of Battle and its not even close. Greatest D&D sourcebook of all time, hands down.

Tome of Battle was the final straw with me and 3e.

 

[District31]

I think it just makes sense when you're asking someone's opinion on aspects of a game to ensure that they have actually played that game.

That'd have been a great question to ask the twelve million people who gave Twilight a 1 star on IMDB!

Have you actually seen the movie

 

[Ruin Explorer]

According to Priestly, et al many parts of WFB deliberately borrowed from D&D.

Quote? I can't find anything of the sort on a quick Google and it doesn't sound like something Priestley would say. I found some interviews with him about the history of Warhammer and he doesn't say anything of the sort. The main thing he says about D&D is that in helped encourage them, and particularly they decided NOT to use polyhedral dice because of D&D, and to stick with D6s. I could totally believe they put Roleplaying in the title to "cash-in" on D&D - but they had a big crossover audience so that's hardly surprising. White Dwarf used to have articles on D&D in it, for goodness sake.

That you're ignoring the fact that I debunked the stuff you specifically claimed was derivative is pretty funny too. Especially given the Orcs thing, good god.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Tome of Battle was the final straw with me and 3e.

Contrastingly, ToB kept us playing 3.XE nearly 2 years beyond when we'd otherwise have given up on it entirely. So we made it to 4E. Without ToB, I guarantee we'd have all been playing something else and stopped buying WotC/Paizo stuff (instead we were still buying it).

 

[pogre]

That you're ignoring the fact that I debunked the stuff you specifically claimed was derivative is pretty funny too. Especially given the Orcs thing, good god.

I think you are thinking about someone else. I did not mention orcs.

Quote?

I think it was a recent article on Cubicle 7, but I will see what I can find.
EDIT: Now I see your orc discussion - did you edit the post to include that stuff? or perhaps I just missed it - I agree with you on the crossover with the orc stuff. WFB definitely made orcs mean and green.

I did say I wanted to disagree 'a bit' - I think we largely agree.