D&D 5E New D&D Player Survey!

[Snarf Zagyg]

I've never considered Greyhawk, Forgotten Realms, or Dragonlance as unique to be their own settings. Certainly you can just shoehorn the best parts of Greyhawk into a continent of Forgotten Realms. Have the Free City be a rival to Waterdeep or something. Let your characters see both places - why not?

Wait ... were you a product manager of TSR in the 90s?

Now I am become ABEIR-TORIL, the destroyer of CAMPAIGN SETTINGS!

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Bah, might as well say there isn’t any difference between Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings. King’s Landing vs. Minas Tirith.

You could run a game based on ether property set in the Forgotten Realms.

 

[Retreater]

Wait ... were you a product manager of TSR in the 90s?

Now I am become ABEIR-TORIL, the destroyer of CAMPAIGN SETTINGS!

My presentation of settings tends to be smaller locales, so there wouldn't be a big leap in logic to be adventuring on the Sword Coast then travel a few weeks into the Cairn Hills. Or come across a crashed airship from distant Sharn.
And many times I'd have the party stumble into the mists of Ravenloft.
I don't think most players are overly concerned with fidelity to campaign worlds.

 

[Mercurius]

I got about five minutes in and then stopped, thinking, "I feel like I've done this survey a bunch of times over the years/decades, and even within the last year."

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

You could run a game based on ether property set in the Forgotten Realms.

That's ... kind of the problem. Sure, you can get something that can sorta do everything ....

But is this the tool that you actually want to use for everything?

 

[Stormonu]

I got about five minutes in and then stopped, thinking, "I feel like I've done this survey a bunch of times over the years/decades, and even within the last year."

Yeah, it definately seems familiar. But a lot of the questions are about “getting into” the game, so they may be gearing this towards first-time surveyors.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

That's ... kind of the problem. Sure, you can get something that can sorta do everything ....

But is this the tool that you actually want to use for everything?

It's more like this:

Since you only use the tools you need, the rest can be left on the belt.

 

[payn]

That's ... kind of the problem. Sure, you can get something that can sorta do everything ....

But is this the tool that you actually want to use for everything?

I think the cat is out of the bag on settings for D&D. Paizo took this route with Golarion, and it works pretty well. I know some folks dont like kitchen sink settings, but if you set it up well, you can run entire themed campaigns in any particular corner of the setting. Sandboxing can work too because you will never get bored of your choices. I personally found it much easier to keep up with too. YMMV.

 

[Maxperson]

You could run a game based on ether property set in the Forgotten Realms.

And on Dark Sun. I mean, you COULD run those in pretty much any setting if you put your mind towards it. Neither of those two cities fit the Realms, though. Both the Kings Landing and Minis Tirith are in settings that are low magic, which neither the Realms or Greyhawk fit, but the Realms the least of the two. That shows two things. First, Both the Kings Landing and Minis Tirith have different flavors, despite being similar in genre. Second, there is a difference in the flavor between the Realms and Greyhawk, or one wouldn't fit those two cities better than the other, despite neither being a good fit.

Different flavors of vanilla matter.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

I never know how to answer these things. How do I separate myself as a gamer from myself as a retailer? As a retailer, I spend ~$40,000 a year on D&D books, but I don't keep them for myself. Also, running PBP games here, I "play" D&D every day, so "when was the last time you played" is a funny question for me. I also find it amusing when they ask "was your first D&D purchase physical or digital" - there wasn't such a thing as digital product when I first bought D&D stuff!

I agree with you posters that would fill out surveys all day long if it resulted in ULTIMATE D&D.