WotC No new DMs Guild Adept titles since mid-December?

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The last new DMs Guild Adept title was added on Dec. 15. Anyone know what's going on? Usually there's a steady clip of a few new ones each week.

 

[Weiley31]

That's a good question.

 

[Parmandur]

The last new DMs Guild Adept title was added on Dec. 15. Anyone know what's going on? Usually there's a steady clip of a few new ones each week.

Maybe they are all working on Ravenloft material? You'd think some would have come for Candlekeep, though...

Maybe the program was discontinued, but WotC doesn't want to say anything about it?

 

[JEB]

Maybe they are all working on Ravenloft material? You'd think some would have come for Candlekeep, though...

Yeah, I would bet on them stacking up material for Ravenloft (and possibly future products beyond it, if more settings are on the way this year). They may have also skipped Candlekeep because it's not the sort of product that would benefit greatly from supplementary material. (The closest post-Adept equivalent, Ghosts of Saltmarsh, only got a single Adept product.)

 

[beast013]

You think they could take five minutes and do an update.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

You think they could take five minutes and do an update.

This is what it's like when your get your RPGs from a fairly large company/corporation rather than from smaller operations, though.

Any such statement, which might potentially indicate stuff like what they're having people do, or that they've shut down the program or put it on hiatus or whatever, or otherwise cause PR issues, likely has to go through some kind of approval process (especially given past incidents). So it's a lot more than five minutes, and given that no-one really seems to have noticed and it's been three months, I doubt it's seen as high-priority.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Well, I noticed. I've been keeping an eye on it for weeks -- I regularly check both DMs Guild and DriveThruRPG -- with increasing puzzlement.

I can't imagine they've shut down the program, given that Rime of the Frost Maiden is basically a big DMs Guild Adepts team-up adventure. Especially with WotC being given the mandate to produce more products, a pipeline for good, reliable creators seems worth maintaining.

 

[darjr]

Who are the current adepts?

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Well, I noticed. I've been keeping an eye on it for weeks -- I regularly check both DMs Guild and DriveThruRPG -- with increasing puzzlement.

I can't imagine they've shut down the program, given that Rime of the Frost Maiden is basically a big DMs Guild Adepts team-up adventure. Especially with WotC being given the mandate to produce more products, a pipeline for good, reliable creators seems worth maintaining.

Sure, and there are any number of possibilities, but if it's something like:

A) They're busily employing all the adepts on a big new adventure path.

B) They're keen on the program but transitioning it to some sort of different structure.

C) They're shutting down or limiting the program in some way.

D) They're in planning to enlarge the program.

Or anything like that, like any change or any plan, that means that any announcement probably has to go past PR/legal. Which is likely to involve a fair bit of discussion.

I kind of suspect it's A, and that the adventure is associated with one of the upcoming "classic" settings.

 

[Zaukrie]

I was shocked not to see Adept work for Candlekeep. I hope that means us smaller publishers get more sales......

It could be almost anything at this point, and am really curious what it is.