D&D 5E WotC Dungeons & Dragons 2020 Product Survey

[aco175]

We only use the cell phone a handful of times to look up spells or something from the elemental evil storyline or such, but generally is is faster to look in the book.

 

[Northern Phoenix]

Looking up anything is way faster online on a tablet than going through a book. I don't think i could ever go back to electronic free.

 

[Charlaquin]

Doesn't mean I want to start bringing my laptop to the game table or my cell phone. I know some people like it as a tool or can only play that way, but it is not my group- at least for now.

I don’t think the survey results will lead them to hire ninjas to beat you up for playing analogue.

 

[R_J_K75]

We only use the cell phone a handful of times to look up spells or something from the elemental evil storyline or such, but generally is is faster to look in the book.

Looking up anything is way faster online on a tablet than going through a book. I don't think i could ever go back to electronic free.

I'd agree if players only used it for game related reasons, but IME all it takes is one text message or an ESPN push notification before 3 players are talking about a hockey game for 5 minutes.

 

[aco175]

I don’t think the survey results will lead them to hire ninjas to beat you up for playing analogue.

My group moves at like 90's internet speed with my father not even owning a cell phone or laptop.

I do remember an 80s movie where "Only a ninja can kill a ninja."

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

The laptops start to replace the characters sheets. I don't advice mobiles on the table. I remeber a fun comic strip where in a RPG set in the feudal Japanese one of the characters says "The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of The Force" and in the next square one of the players says "sorry, my mobile is ringing".

The TTRPGs are for the fandom who love to create their own fanart or doings lots of different actions in the current videogames aren't possible yet, but the true big cash-cow are the videogames, and you have to remember WotC thinks about future seven or eight videogames in the future. One of them is Baldur's Gate 3, the other is Dark Alliance. Archetype Enternaiment is working in a sci-fi game using a different version of the d20 system. If we want a D&D AAA videogame we will have to await years. A videogame for mobile needs lesser time but the market is saturated.

At least D&D can enjoy indirect advertising thanks other franchises, for example Warcraft or Lord of the Rings.

Haven't you thought about the fanboys who live in the little towns? In the city you can to the comic shop, but let's imagine a life without mobile and internet. Welcome to the 80's and the first half of the 90's!! Can you imagine how was to be the one geek on the classrom? Nobody to can talk about your favorite superheroes because the rest of the children would rather soccer. Today players or fans can buy sourcebooks, but they can't play because they are too busy or to find time with friends isn't easy. Someones are lucky if they can play with their own children, but little children can't play for long time.

My suggestion is a virtual tabletop to be used for game-live shows as Critical Role and proffesional videogamer streamers. With a quest creators the streamers will find different stories.

 

[Parmandur]

I was thinking the same thing about an hour ago. I know what people are going to say about my next statement regarding how they did this and people jumped all over them when the product(s) didnt materialize, but I wish in these surveys theyd just come out and say we're thinking of releasing a campaign setting, DMs supplement, etc, what would you prefer? This way I can answer the questions more objectively.

They don't want answers that people consider "objective," they want details on what people use and enjoy so they can design around that.

 

[R_J_K75]

They don't want answers that people consider "objective," they want details on what people use and enjoy so they can design around that.

Guess my point is my answer to pick 3 campaign settings you like would be a lot different then if I were asked to pick the one you would actually like to see us update to 5E, as Id imagine a lot of peoples would. But who knows Im not a statistician nor do I play one on TV.

 

[Umbran]

True, but more and more this has become an age of instant information and instant gratification that has made the world a worse place in some aspects. It pretty obvious that people are becoming more and more reliant on it. Just my opinion.

Yes, and back when paper was invented, the stonecarvers wre like, "People are becoming reliant on paper to write things down. What's wrong with good-old fashioned stone? Anything really important, you carve in stone, darn it! If it isn't worth carving in stone, you can keep in your head! If you can't keep it in your head, that's 'cuz you got reliant on all that darned paper stuff!"

I'm sorry, but back before covid, a friend of mine asked us to join a game he was playing, and we tried using D&D Beyond, because heck, it was free, so why not try it. And having our tablets at the table open to the web page, with text of the spells we were using a click away, and rules just a search away from the same page, did not cause disruption, or our brains to atrophy and leak out of our ears or anything.

Wyrmwood Games' new modular table kickstarter includes a TV screen among their modular accessories. The future is here.

 

[ccs]

I had chosen Homebrew, Dragon Lance and and Greyhawk as my top 3. It asked me a lot of questions about Homebrew and DMing. I think I answered about 60-70.
Lots of cool questions about DM tools and playing styles, I liked it.

Yeah, I put Homebrew as my favorite & got 66 questions. Alot concerning digital stuff - that I don't use. Hope my honest answers on those don't skew things against the rest of you, but this DM is old school: The faulty grey stuff in my head, a note book (paper) a pen, & a stack of physical books as needed. Sometimes I'll actually type something up.....

Oh, and they kept asking me about using a calendar app. ?? Um, I have the session times entered into my phone. Same as any other appointment.