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).

 

[Azzy]

I got the NDA and the video, but no sound, so I got no questions about it.

I would guess a critical determining answer might be how much time you spend DMing? I answered 75%.

I answered 70%.

 

[Charlaquin]

It is going to be tough, IMO, to get anyone that has paid a lot of money 2-3 times already to convert. Very tough.

Of course, if it’s attached to a new edition, it’ll be an easier sell.

 

[lkj]

For those who have not seen the NDA stuff, I found these images on imgur. Looks fake, I agreed to NDA so will not confirm if real or not.


Edit: If mods want to take this down, feel free, I am not super familiar with the forum rules on this sort of thing.

So, finally looking at that last image there, and that is a D&D Beyond character sheet. Exact match. Which suggests either the extremely foolish move of copying an image off another company's website to promote their new product or . . . well, hopefully, a partnership of some kind.

Edit to add: The phone image is also a copy of the D&D Beyond character sheet when you bring it up on the website on mobile.

Edit to further add: This would tie nicely with Joe Starr being so excited about the things to come in every single development update in the last couple months. Fingers crossed.

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[Mercurius]

Three possibilities:

1) They're hopelessly naive in thinking this NDA would hold.
2) It was a deliberate leak.
3) It was a test to see how long an NDA would hold, perhaps for some other upcoming project.

 

[darjr]

So, finally looking at that last image there, and that is a D&D Beyond character sheet. Exact match. Which suggests either the extremely foolish move of copying an image off another company's website to promote their new product or . . . well, hopefully, a partnership of some kind.

Edit to add: The phone image is also a copy of the D&D Beyond character sheet when you bring it up on the website on mobile.

Edit to further add: This would tie nicely with Joe Starr being so excited about the things to come in every single development update in the last couple months. Fingers crossed.

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Whoa! Good point.
This could be all about a ddb thing?

 

[Mecheon]

2) It was a deliberate leak.

Another line I follow had one of the developers deliberately leak something to do up a paper on how information transmits through the Internet, so always a possibility.

I think they just wanted to drum up support and scare the Youtubers into not posting about it (Notice they did ask about where you got your news from), and get more people to do the survey in response

 

[Sword of Spirit]

Same. Just a bunch of questions about racial abilities and basic mechanics, either of D&D generally (Initiative rolls, frex) or 5e specifically ("Advantage" as a term of art, what things are part of character creation).

At least I got the chance to tell them how utterly disappointed I am with the Dragonborn race. (I hope that this is taken as "please fix them" rather than "make them go away." Given Dragonborn are like, the fourth or fifth most popular race choice from D&D Beyond, despite their distinct mechanical....paucity, shall we say, I'm not too worried about that. But given the number of people who would absolutely yeet Dragonborn straight out of the game no matter how popular they are, I do feel a little justified in worrying.)

You are absolutely justified. I personally am not interested in dragonborn being in the game, but I've seen that phenomenon many times, where they get poor ratings on something they play test, and then just give up on the idea--never asking if people are dissatisfied with the idea or just the implementation.

If there is room for a write-in, I will tell them I like the concept but not the implementation, but without actual questions in the survey abot that, that's all they get--a few write-ins. It's a flaw in their surveys. I hope. The alternative interpretations are more frustrating.

 

[Warpiglet-7]

Number 2 @Mercurius

 

[Grantypants]

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”

Someone else probably already pointed this out, but it seems a lot more likely to me that, rather than screening out non-d&d players, they wanted to be able to screen out the more intense d&d players. From a business perspective, if they're trying to grow the game, they need to know more about people who don't already know all the rules. Also, it is very easy to get the opinions of serious d&d players (citation: this entire forum, for starters). Finding the opinions of people who are less into the game is harder, and would maybe justify a weird survey.

 

[Blue]

Huh, I just took it, no NDA or reveal.