D&D General Dungeons & Dragons Teams Up With HarperCollins for Young Adult Novels and Graphic Novels

[LordEntrails]

Since when is a cowardly kobold a misfit for a kobold?

 

[Parmandur]

I mean, WotC has made FR it's default setting for 5E, and are largely moving away from all the NSFW stuff.

This is also for wee little kids, I don't think many of the readers are going to have a hankering to check out the wiki.

I mean, 8-12 year olds know how to use the Internet.

 

[Parmandur]

Mixed feelings about this. This is a good sign for the long term return of novels besides RAS' novels, but I don't think FR is the right setting for kids, there is alot of adult content in it, torture, sex, prostitution, multilation, infantazied attempts, genocide, rape attempts, magical rape, incest attempts, etc..., its a great setting, but a trip by your kids FR wiki to find out more about the setting is going to put them into shock.

Its like setting a children's book in Westerios, you could call it Game of Musical Chairs.

But the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide is probably fine for the average 8 year old...and that is what they will be pointed towards by HarperCollins and Hasbro.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

I mean, 8-12 year olds know how to use the Internet.

I know they do, I'm just saying very few kids are going to want to check out the wiki.

 

[Voadam]

Since when is a cowardly kobold a misfit for a kobold?

It is probably just a general misfit and not a misfit among the kobolds because of being cowardly. Similarly for the mimic not being a misfit among the mimics because it shapeshifts.

 

[Parmandur]

I know they do, I'm just saying very few kids are going to want to check out the wiki.

True, more likely to check out the game books or the Young Adventurer's line available in Target. My oldest is only 6, but he loves looking through the bestiaries of different books. He was somewhat angry at Theros for not having dragon pictures.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Yes, "young" reader...

That cover really is adorable.

It all looks very adorable, I'm sure any young reader should enjoy it!

 

[Henadic Theologian]

I mean, WotC has made FR it's default setting for 5E, and are largely moving away from all the NSFW stuff.

This is also for wee little kids, I don't think many of the readers are going to have a hankering to check out the wiki.

BG3 has plies of sex and nudity, mass murder, booze, deals with devils, brains/intellect devourers that get surgically removed from a still leaving person.

BG: DiA is set in Hell and very dark including tossing peoples souls into fire to be consumed while they scream.

I say this as huge, huge, FR fan, its not a kid friendly setting and its too entrenched in the setting to distance one's self from.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Similarly for the mimic not being a misfit among the mimics because it shapeshifts.

It's probably a misfit because it doesn't try to eat your face off whilst a DM cackles manically in the background.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

BG3 has plies of sex and nudity, mass murder, booze, deals with devils, brains/intellect devourers that get surgically removed from a still leaving person.

BG: DiA is set in Hell and very dark including tossing peoples souls into fire to be consumed while they scream.

I say this as huge, huge, FR fan, its not a kid friendly setting and its too entrenched in the setting to distance one's self from.

Sorry, this is the cost of being the 5E default setting; it's going to be used as the default setting for D&D kids material.

FR can easily be spun as a kid-friendly setting. Waterdeep, Neverwinter, and surrounding areas are pretty easy areas for very kid-friendly adventures. If I were to run an adventure for young kids, Waterdeep: Dragon Heist is extremely youth friendly (it's also one of my favorite adventures).

Eberron can also be made pretty kid-friendly, but it's not as generic (as in, hewing strictly to the races/classes in the PHB) as FR is, so doesn't work as well for such books as an intro to D&D.