D&D 5E New WotC Survey! Learn About A New D&D Product!

WotC has launched a new survey about the future of D&D. This survey includes an NDA (which some people have not taken to well!) halfway through, which asks you not to talk about the survey on pain of being tracked down and fined, but it's about an upcoming (unannounced) new D&D product. You can find out what it is by taking the survey (or it's all over social media aready).

 

[Charlaquin]

I’d assume we’re allowed to talk about the rest of the survey before the secret new product. I got some basic rules questions, which I assume were there to screen out people who don’t actually play D&D messing up the results, which makes sense, but felt a little like being grilled to prove I’m not a “fake gamer girl”

Lots of questions about satisfaction with the races and race features in the PHB, which reminded me very much of the Next Playtest surveys. I was a skeptic that there would be any edition change or major revisions to 5e in the near future for a while, but at this point I think the writing is on the wall.

As for the super secret new product, I’ll refrain from talking about it. But I’m not pleased with it. I think I may be getting old.

 

[overgeeked]

Yeah. It's silly. Who are they trying to hide it from?

A certain licensee perhaps?

 

[Fenris-77]

I've heard of some DMs removing Darkvision from the game completely...no races have it, not even subterranean ones. Embrace the darkness.

That's my jam.

 

[J-H]

I answered a bunch of racial questions. I had to put N/A/don't know on the gnome stuff because I have barely looked at gnomes and nobody I know uses one.

Then we got to the secret squirrel part, I watched the very slowly narrated video, said I could understand it, and then got booted out with no questions about it. The one I got made it look like the guys at DND Beyond aren't going to be happy unless they are getting acquired.
I wish I had the chance to tell them "No, I'm not interested."

 

[Urriak Uruk]

I've heard of some DMs removing Darkvision from the game completely...no races have it, not even subterranean ones. Embrace the darkness.

I'm ok with dwarves and drow having darkvision. I'm pretty strict though that seeing stuff in black-and-white isn't exactly like waking around in the day.

 

[Morrus]

A certain licensee perhaps?

And what stops them looking at the survey themselves?

 

[Urriak Uruk]

It is pretty funny how most people on this thread all know what the secret thing is, and are talking to each other about how we feel about the secret thing, without actually saying the name of the secret thing...

Would be hilarious if we all actually did get completely different videos!

 

[Dausuul]

A certain licensee perhaps?

It's not like they can prevent the employees of that licensee from taking the survey themselves.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

I'm ok with dwarves and drow having darkvision. I'm pretty strict though that seeing stuff in black-and-white isn't exactly like waking around in the day.

Yeah, and all the variations over the years. Nightvision, Infravision, Darkvision, Low-light vision. I would rather bring back infravision and seeing heat signatures in the dark, than using a vision type that allows any kind of normal sight in full darkness.

 

[overgeeked]

And what stops them looking at the survey themselves?

Their IPs are blocked? No idea. It is rather silly of them.