D&D 5E WotC Delays New D&D Book Announcement

This from WotC — “Get the quasits out of our office! Our plan to make a D&D book announcement on Thursday has been changed. Adventurers, mark your calendars for Monday, January 13.”

The book was due to be announced on Thursday 9th January after a mysterious entry appeared on Amazon with a product title of "Dungeons & Dragons March Release Book (Title announced January 9th)" and a release date of March 17th, 2020. See the original news item here:

D&D 5E - March's D&D Book To Be Announced On January 9th

A mysterious entry has appeared on Amazon! With a product title of "Dungeons & Dragons March Release Book (Title announced January 9th)" and a release date of March 17th, 2020, this $49.95 hardcover release will be revealed in under a week! The description reads "Your first look at the next...

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They haven't given a reason; back in November WotC delayed the launch of the sapphire D&D anniversary dice at the last minute, too.

D&D General - $300 D&D Dice Delayed

WotC has delayed the sale of the $300 dice. They haven’t said why.

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[gyor]

This. Mercer's designs are often off. The blood drain feature for a little more damage and the exploding guns of the gunslinger while doing less than a basic battlemaster are weird and overly punitive. There's also the cobalt soul that cost a boat load of ki points for thing other class can do for free. Most of them would benefit from being polished by the official design team.

I'm sure it all got polished by the WotC team.

 

[Fenris-77]

Yeah, I just reread the Blood Hunter and asked myself "why would I even play this?". I don't mind the concept, quite the opposite really, but I prefer my classes with working maths behind them.

 

[gyor]

Yeah, I just reread the Blood Hunter and asked myself "why would I even play this?". I don't mind the concept, quite the opposite really, but I prefer my classes with working maths behind them.

So WotC polishes it, I like the Blood Hunter flavour, it deserves to have it's mechanics polished.

 

[Parmandur]

So WotC polishes it, I like the Blood Hunter flavour, it deserves to have it's mechanics polished.

Yeah, the big thing is that we know the Blood Hunter is popular in D&D Beyond and the DMs Guild, warts and all. WotC probably has detailed numbers. I wouldn't put giving it a big polish release past them...

 

[gyor]

Yeah, the big thing is that we know the Blood Hunter is popular in D&D Beyond and the DMs Guild, warts and all. WotC probably has detailed numbers. I wouldn't put giving it a big polish release past them...

How do we know that? I'm not doubting you on this, just curious where you are getting your Intel?

 

[Parmandur]

How do we know that? I'm not doubting you on this, just curious where you are getting your Intel?

Adam Bradford, the head honcho at D&D Beyond, has gone over the numbers for Class play on his regular videocast (available on the DDB YouTube channel), and the Blood Hunter ranks well on the DMsGuild lists, last I checked.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

I love Matt Mercer and CR is fun...but I'm really disappointed in this. We now have two Campaign Settings that no one asked for (Ravinica and now Wildemount) while fan favorites like Planescape, Dark Sun, Dragonlance, Greyhawk, and heck, everything in FR that isn't the Sword Coast or Chult have had no official support at all.

Lots of folks asked for both.

They do, with multiple shows. None have caught on to the degree that Critical Role has (Dice Camera Action had a respectable, but still much smaller following than CR before it flamed out due to cast controversy last year). It goes to show that it’s not so easy to do what Mercer & company do in terms of capturing the imagination of an audience.

Acquisitions Inc is definitely comparable in fandom, with a ton of overlap. Especially the C Team.

 

[Parmandur]

We now have two Campaign Settings that no one asked for (Ravinica and now Wildemount) while fan favorites like Planescape, Dark Sun, Dragonlance, Greyhawk, and heck, everything in FR that isn't the Sword

I'm pretty sure that is the opposite of the case: the number of people who wanted and asked for D&D in Ravnica for over 15 years, and Critters, are going to far outnumber old Setting diehards.

 

[vecna00]

I'm pretty sure that is the opposite of the case: the number of people who wanted and asked for D&D in Ravnica for over 15 years, and Critters, are going to far outnumber old Setting diehards.

I don't agree with it, but this is the case.

 

[gyor]

Adam Bradford, the head honcho at D&D Beyond, has gone over the numbers for Class play on his regular videocast (available on the DDB YouTube channel), and the Blood Hunter ranks well on the DMsGuild lists, last I checked.

Just looked it up, its an Adamantium Best Sell with 685 reviews and 5 stars. Extremely, extremely impressive.