D&D 5E Witchlight Promo Video: Ellywick Tumblestrum

WotC posted this short video on its social media accounts today, featuring a character called Ellywick Tumblestrum, who is a bard from the Magic: the Gathering D&D set, Adventures in the Forgotten Realms.

“Join Ellywick Tumblestrum from @Wizards_Magic's Adventures in the Forgotten Realms, bard of the multiverse, guest of the Summer Queen & bearer of Morningmist, as she casts Legend Lore to uncover the next Dungeons & Dragons story!”

Join Ellywick Tumblestrum from Magic: The Gathering's Adventures in the Forgotten Realms, bard of the multiverse, guest of the Summer Queen & bearer of Morningmist, as she casts Legend Lore to uncover the next Dungeons & Dragons story! #WeekOfLegendL

Join Ellywick Tumblestrum from Magic: The Gathering's Adventures in the Forgotten Realms, bard of the multiverse, guest of the Summer Queen & bearer of...

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[Urriak Uruk]

Why is everyone calling Wild Beyond the Witchlight, the big Summer release? It comes out on Sept 21, the literal last day of Summer? And June, July and August are normally called the Summer months, so whatever this third book may be, it could be revealed tomorrow and have a release date of the same time as the D&D Live event. Then they could show it off and have the usual gaming groups trying it out live on the stream.

Usually the adventure books come out in September, but the D&D staff call them the "summer release." I think it has more to do with the promotion for the book, which is all in the summer, as opposed to the actual release date.

That said, I agree and personally hold that September is part of the Fall season. Hopefully the last product is announced tomorrow, that'd be nice.

 

[Parmandur]

Why is everyone calling Wild Beyond the Witchlight, the big Summer release? It comes out on Sept 21, the literal last day of Summer? And June, July and August are normally called the Summer months, so whatever this third book may be, it could be revealed tomorrow and have a release date of the same time as the D&D Live event. Then they could show it off and have the usual gaming groups trying it out live on the stream.

Because every Summer Adventure since 2015 has come out in September, and still been called a Summer release.

 

[Parmandur]

Usually the adventure books come out in September, but the D&D staff call them the "summer release." I think it has more to do with the promotion for the book, which is all in the summer, as opposed to the actual release date.

That said, I agree and personally hold that September is part of the Fall season. Hopefully the last product is announced tomorrow, that'd be nice.

September is part of Fiscal Q3, so for business purposes it is "Summer." Q4 is "Fall," Q1 is "Winter" and Q2 is "Spring." This is fairly standard in business, and WotC has been applying that consistently for years, prior to 5E I'm pretty sure.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

September is part of Fiscal Q3, so for business purposes it is "Summer." Q4 is "Fall," Q1 is "Winter" and Q2 is "Spring." This is fairly standard in business, and WotC has been applying that consistently for years, prior to 5E I'm pretty sure.

In business terms, I understand. But it's nuts that real-world people would ever consider January as spring, or October as winter.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

In business terms, I understand. But it's nuts that real-world people would ever consider January as spring, or October as winter.

MBAs are all nuts.

 

[Parmandur]

In business terms, I understand. But it's nuts that real-world people would ever consider January as spring, or October as winter.

No, no, October is Q4, so "Fall." January is Q1, so "Winter." It's really just a little over a week each Quarter that doesn't overlap: June is mostly Spring.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

No, no, October is Q4, so "Fall." January is Q1, so "Winter." It's really just a little over a week each Quarter that doesn't overlap: June is mostly Spring.

You may be running on old data, or WotC does not use the same quarters that Hasbro does. I was just looking at the most recent quarterly report for Hasbro, from the end of April, and it is for the first Quarter 2021, and includes Jan-March. So it looks like this company is not one that still counts the months weird for their fiscal quarters. And yes, they do not follow the seasons for their fiscal quarters.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

No, no, October is Q4, so "Fall." January is Q1, so "Winter." It's really just a little over a week each Quarter that doesn't overlap: June is mostly Spring.

Still silly. December is winter, not fall. March is spring, not winter. I know the astronomical season thinks most of December is fall, but the astronomical seasons are silly; long live the meteorological seasons!

 

[Parmandur]

Still silly. December is winter, not fall. March is spring, not winter. I know the astronomical season thinks most of December is fall, but the astronomical seasons are silly; long live the meteorological seasons!

I mean, where I live the only two seasons are "water" and "fire." It's all relative.

It is interesting that this is the first year where WotC will succeed in releasing a book each fiscal Quarter.

Edit: I guess they did in 2019.

 

[teitan]

Did something in their announcement preclude a book being announced? I didn't watch the video.

People were speculating that their announcement was going to be synchronous with WOTC’s announcement today.