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).

 

[grimslade]

I was going to spill the secret but WotC sent Jeremy Crawford and a rabid owlbear to make sure I do not. Jokes on them I have had my rabies and Crawford shot.
Obvious future pitch is obvious. It has been promised before, many times. It is a no-brainer to expand D&D.

 

[MacMathan]

I didn't get any questions after the video part. so I guess I missed the demographic somewhere?

 

[Waller]

So I didn't agree to the NDA bit. I've seen screenshots on Facebook. And people are talking about it all over Reddit. I'm free to talk.

It's a digital tools set, with 3D graphics. Like a super-advanced version of Roll20 and D&D Beyond. Isometric looking maps with customizable digital miniatures. Uses phones and tablets as character sheets.

Also saw a screenshot which had Flint Fireforge in it on a phone screen. So.... in unrelated news, is Dragonlance coming also?

 

[Dausuul]

Threatening to sue survey respondents seems to be the mean spirited attitude only a corporate lawyer would devise.

Clearly they are trying to break into the old-school gaming community. Going for that classic TSR feel, you know?

 

[elZombie]

Well, I know jack about US Law, but I'd like to see WotC trying to sue me across the globe with a "twitter-post survey NDA" as proof...
They're just making themselves look like fools.

 

[Zaukrie]

I'm sure the NDA is like signing a waiver at a MLB game. Meant to discourage you, not likely to be useful......but it is ham fisted.

 

[Iry]

Voted to remove Darkvision from Elves.

 

[sevenbastard]

I didn't get any questions after the video part. so I guess I missed the demographic somewhere?

Same. Maybe I am too old? Or that I played something other than 5e in the last 12 months? Or I hate dark vision?

 

[Benjamin Olson]

I'm sure the NDA is like signing a waiver at a MLB game. Meant to discourage you, not likely to be useful......but it is ham fisted.

100%. Most waivers are largely unenforceable and just there to confuse people about their rights and this is comparable. In this case I think it is more about discouraging discussion and particularly making higher profile people think twice before publishing an article, youtube video, etc. about the potential new product.

In particular here, since one of the most basic tenets of contract law is that an enforceable contract requires that both sides get something of value out of the deal, enforcing this NDA would require arguing in court that getting to participate in a survey was compensation. Not a completely unsustainable case, but a pretty damned weak one to start from on the already impracticable and inadvisable task of suing a mass of anonymous individuals (who are also generally fans and customers) for things they say on the internet that don't particularly harm you.

Once again though, I'll reiterate that TSR probably would have actually just sued everyone.

 

[darjr]

I’m usually a WotC fan but this was dumb

edit: not being able to talk about it.