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

[R_J_K75]

Well, they started writing Wildemount in 2018, about the time they started the campaign set in Wildemount. So the book was already in advanced stages of development when they did that survey.

I do partly wonder if the Blood Hunter almost made it into print: the fluff about Blood Hunters is in the book, and the page count is odd as if something was cut.

I dont watch CR so Im not familiar the setting much. I did pick up the Wildemount book a few weeks ago but have gotten around to reading it, probably will soon hopefully. Im not not on FB, Twitter or any other social media so I miss alot of news in the RPG community these days.

 

[R_J_K75]

It doesn't hurt to be thorough, but i think those numbers were pretty clear to see for everyone.



I think they're extremely conservative about adding whole new classes to 5e, even for someone like Mercer.

Kinda figured that was the case as it seemed a hot commodity.

 

[Kurotowa]

Sure. But somehow, just somehow, I feel when they list all the settings I have a hard time believing the write-in "other" setting votes outnumber a well known listed one.

You're looking at the wrong question. The one on this survey was about existing and legacy setting popularity, not interest levels in prospective new setting books. Data gathering on the latter comes from different questions, and very possibly entirely different data streams.

 

[Parmandur]

I dont watch CR so Im not familiar the setting much. I did pick up the Wildemount book a few weeks ago but have gotten around to reading it, probably will soon hopefully. Im not not on FB, Twitter or any other social media so I miss alot of news in the RPG community these days.

Have fun with that, it's a fun book with a ton of mineable content, and show knowledge shouldn't be a barrier to entry (Mercer seems to have been hyperconcious of not making this a self-referential book just for fans, but what he would want as a DM).

 

[JiffyPopTart]

Kinda figured that was the case as it seemed a hot commodity.

There will be an ocean levels worth of salt in the forums if something new gets a full class treatment either before or instead of a psion.

 

[R_J_K75]

Have fun with that, it's a fun book with a ton of mineable content, and show knowledge shouldn't be a barrier to entry (Mercer seems to have been hyperconcious of not making this a self-referential book just for fans, but what he would want as a DM).

Yeah we had talked about this not long ago. I really liked the map and what I saw what little browsing I did. Hopefully I can get through it but Im reading something else now and my attention span is short for reading for any length of time so it takes me awhile to finish a book. As opposed to knocking out a 300 pg campaign setting a few years back.

 

[Parmandur]

There will be an ocean levels worth of salt in the forums if something new gets a full class treatment either before or instead of a psion.

That was what was interesting in the survey last year: they asked several questions about Classes in D&D, and they had 15 they kept using: the standard 12, plus Artificer, Blood Hunter and Psion/Mystic (they called it Psion/Mystic, too).

 

[R_J_K75]

There will be an ocean levels worth of salt in the forums if something new gets a full class treatment either before or instead of a psion.

I was referring to the campaign setting but I think your right, if they were going to add a new class for that setting theyd have done it then.

 

[Mecheon]

There will be an ocean levels worth of salt in the forums if something new gets a full class treatment either before or instead of a psion.

I mean, if Warlord pops up before Psion, I'm sure there'd be enough cries of joy and "Its been 30,000 years" to balance off the salt

 

[Mistwell]

Any opportunity for me to tell WOTC I want Greyhawk back is a good survey!