D&D 5E There's a Platinum Edition of the Icewind Dale Adventure!

Beadle & Grimm has a platinum edition of Icewind Dale: Rime Of The Frostmaiden, a title we'd never heard before, launching later this year.

Wizards of the Coast's latest adventure, and our newest Platinum Edition. Minis, maps, jewelry, handouts, encounter cards, and so much more. Everything you need to make your adventure in the frozen north epic!

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"What’s a platinum edition you ask? Well, the goblins at the warehouse have been watching a lot of British baking show, and since we can’t give any real details about this platinum edition anyway, we’ll give you a lightly abbreviated recipe:

-include the entire module divided into booklets that are easier to manage.
-fold in 20 wizkids painted minis
-lightly dice 5 or more full-size battle maps
-fold in 60 encounter cards
-brush with handouts, jewelry
-bake
-serve chilled with bonus jam blending bonus art, bonus encounters, pre-built pcs, and whatever else is moving around the warehouse too slowly to escape"

 

[thealmightyn]

Those who wished for boxxed products like in the days of old should put up or shut up

I didn't pay $500 even for all five of the BECMI boxed sets.

 

[Tales and Chronicles]

I'd pay a good 90CAD$ to get a decent campaign boxed set: fold out maps, adventure in different booklet, a cheap DM screen etc, nothing fancy. But 700CAD$, even for high quality props and prints, is a little too rich for my tastes; its, like, the cost of my family's apartment for the month.

One thing I would have love they kept from the D&Dnext times where the small packaged modules ala Murder in BG and Legacy of the Crystal Shard. That format was amazing: a thin slipcase with a small, thematic, Dm screen, the 32 pages module booklet, the DM's booklet (monsters, adventure mechanics) and a booklet with the gazeteer for the region. That kind of stuff really awakens the ''gotta catch'em all'' in me.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I'd pay a good 90CAD$ to get a decent campaign boxed set: fold out maps, adventure in different booklet, a cheap DM screen etc, nothing fancy. But 700CAD$, even for high quality props and prints, is a little too rich for my tastes; its, like, the cost of my family's apartment for the month.

If you're cool with third party content, there's almost always at least one boxed set like this up on Kickstarter at any given time.

 

[Tales and Chronicles]

If you're cool with third party content, there's almost always at least one boxed set like this up on Kickstarter at any given time.

I got the Humblewood one, but thanks, I'll keep my eyes open for more!

 

[MostlyHarmless42]

You know, I get that this is supposed to be a limited collector's set and it's scarisity is supposed to be part of the deal, but I can't help but feel every time I see one of this companies box sets that frankly annoyed that they don't just offer the maps or other documents in digital format after the fact. Far too often I find myself searching for maps for the official modules long after it has released and end up seeing their box sets (long sold out by that point) pop up. It's an oddly specific, yet consistently infuriating issue I keep running into while seeking out battlemaps.

 

[Birmy]

You know, I get that this is supposed to be a limited collector's set and it's scarisity is supposed to be part of the deal, but I can't help but feel every time I see one of this companies box sets that frankly annoyed that they don't just offer the maps or other documents in digital format after the fact. Far too often I find myself searching for maps for the official modules long after it has released and end up seeing their box sets (long sold out by that point) pop up. It's an oddly specific, yet consistently infuriating issue I keep running into while seeking out battlemaps.

On today's stream they did a (booze-influenced) Q&A, and they said it's the question they get most often. They would love to do digital releases, and WotC sees the value in them doing it, but the intricacies of various rights mean they can't.

 

[MichaelSomething]

Eh? What?

Now that I'm home and can actually inspect the product, calling it a boxxed product like in yesteryear was wrong.
This is clearly much, much bigger then that! And it looks like there's demand for it!

 

[Weiley31]

Looks nice, but a tad bit expensive. I'll just stick to the Hydro Limited Edition cover.

 

[timbannock]

On today's stream they did a (booze-influenced) Q&A, and they said it's the question they get most often. They would love to do digital releases, and WotC sees the value in them doing it, but the intricacies of various rights mean they can't.

Which is weird, because the rights are held by Wizards of the Coast utterly and completely, based on everything one can dig up about ownership and licenses on DMsGuild, D&D Beyond, and their other third party vendors. So what that really means is "WOTC doesn't want to hand over digital distribution rights outside of D&D Beyond," and probably related, "D&D Beyond doesn't make quite enough money to bring on enough additional people to digitize a lot of third party content." That's not saying "DDB doesn't make money" by any stretch, but more that they stand to make substantially more money doing work on things other than the D&D license outside of the official WOTC releases. That's why we see them doing one-offs with Riot Games and seeing Fandom purchase Cortex RPG, I bet.

All conjecture, but you look between the lines enough...

 

[Tales and Chronicles]

That's why we see them doing one-offs with Riot Games

About that, there was a announcement yesterday saying the this content was to be removed 'cause a ''change of circumstances and miscommunication''.

The main theory for now is that the MTG part of WotC did not like to share the ''card game to D&D rules'' with another new player.