D&D 5E What's your ideal product release schedule over the next few years?

[Parmandur]

My preference is one a Fiscal Quarter, but I can live with five and miscellaneous stuff.

 

[dave2008]

One book per year at most. Ideally none. If the designers want 5E to be evergreen, as they originally promised, then they need to stop publishing books. Leave it to the community to design new content.

Every published book brings 5E closer to its death.

That doesn't currently seem to be the case as sales are still rising.

However, you will eventually be correct that every step brings it closer to the end (that is inevitable really). Though I imagine that if the actually published one book per year it would die sooner rather than later.

 

[Marc_C]

I would like to see a Gamma World rules and setting book with a short adventure at the end to get the PCs started.

Would that be considered part of the three 'old setting' they mentioned or they said D&D specifically?

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

There is a opened door for the return of Gamma World, or at least a reboot, but the answer has to be "not yet". Gamma World is a setting where the PCs have to save ammo and the best gadgets for the special moments, and the players from 2021 ask technology of 2021, for example the new materials as the graphene, or the 3D-printers. In Gamma World that means machines creating robots to repair or crafting more machines. If GW adds psionic powers then players will wonder how to use these against firearms, for example pieces of ectoplam to block canons. Have you played any Battle Royal videogame? Think when two PCs with the same stats but one has got a better firearm than the other. Machine guns can break the power balance easily in a RPG designed for melee combact with some desultory spell but in the final fight with the bosses.

Don't worry, surelly Hasbro would love to publish a post-apocalypse setting with lots of antropomorphic animals.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

Don't worry, surelly Hasbro would love to publish a post-apocalypse setting with lots of antropomorphic animals.

I've said this before, but in the Dev Blog published recently, Hasbro apparently makes almost no input in what products WotC publishes.

 

[Parmandur]

I've said this before, but in the Dev Blog published recently, Hasbro apparently makes almost no input in what products WotC publishes.

But it's much easier to blame things we don't like on The Man and Faceless Corporate Bean-Counters.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

But it's much easier to blame things we don't like on The Man and Faceless Corporate Bean-Counters.

I'm honestly so glad it was in the blog post... now I can safely refute the "Big bad toy company ruined my fun!" argument.

 

[Parmandur]

I'm honestly so glad it was in the blog post... now I can safely refute the "Big bad toy company ruined my fun!" argument.

Well, Winninger would say that, Corporate toolbox that he is.

/s

 

[Stormonu]

Also, I’d like to see some smaller products. Everything we’re getting now is a 200+ page book, it’d be nice to see the occasional 16-32 page adventure or supplement.

 

[Parmandur]

Also, I’d like to see some smaller products. Everything we’re getting now is a 200+ page book, it’d be nice to see the occasional 16-32 page adventure or supplement.

I think WotC isn't likely to do that, with the DMsGUild on the scene and publishing as it is. Most of the big books are really frankensteins of smaller modules and supplements.