D&D 5E Which D&D books currently scheduled for 2023 are you interested in?

[skintchicken]

When are we supposed to get any info about The Golden Vault book? Its supposed to release in less than a month and I haven't seen what the cover even looks like. I'm new so forgive the ignorance, but is this normal? It seems like last year there would be at least a month of knowing the basics of the content, knowing how the cover art looks, maybe seeing images of a chapter on YouTube, etc. before the release.

 

[Minigiant]

None.

I'm tired of nostalgia trips from both WOTC and third party.

I'm all in on the "New Stuff" only.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

When are we supposed to get any info about The Golden Vault book? Its supposed to release in less than a month and I haven't seen what the cover even looks like. I'm new so forgive the ignorance, but is this normal? It seems like last year there would be at least a month of knowing the basics of the content, knowing how the cover art looks, maybe seeing images of a chapter on YouTube, etc. before the release.

It's extremely weird and probably to do with the turmoil at WotC right now. I don't think WotC want it to be associated with the whole OGL fiasco, but the problem is that fiasco may well continue until it's launched.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

But I can understand why they went with an adventure, and I do feel there’s a pretty good chance of that happening again with Planescape, but we’ll see.

It's just such a phenomenally bad idea, because the odds of any given person who buys the book running the adventure are fairly low, and the odds of them running it more than once are almost impossibly low, so it's like why waste 1/3rd of the entire pagecount of what is allegedly a setting, on an adventure you'll run once at most? Why not put setting material in a setting lol?

 

[Older Beholder]

When are we supposed to get any info about The Golden Vault book? It’s mmsupposed to release in less than a month and I haven't seen what the cover even looks like. I'm new so forgive the ignorance, but is this normal? It seems like last year there would be at least a month of knowing the basics of the content, knowing how the cover art looks, maybe seeing images of a chapter on YouTube, etc. before the release.

Amazon has Feb 21 as the release date.
So yeah, less than a month and nothing does seem unusual.

 

[Cruentus]

None.

I wish they’d leave the old stuff alone, and do a new setting, or something actually “new”.

And please, please for the love of all things, leave Greyhawk alone…

 

[Jer]

It's extremely weird and probably to do with the turmoil at WotC right now. I don't think WotC want it to be associated with the whole OGL fiasco, but the problem is that fiasco may well continue until it's launched.

Yeah their marketing folks - heck the whole D&D team - have to be really frustrated by all of this. Trying to talk up new product in the middle of the PR hurricane their bosses have shoved them into is not going to work.

 

[Jer]

Seems a little extreme, will you be pulping just your 5E books, or anything WotC?
Good luck pulping that Spelljammer box set, the paper on that bad boy was hella thick. Lol.

I'm not going to be pulping anything.

But I also won't buy anything new, and I'll play other games. The books I already own can sit on my shelves and I can pull them out for ideas for the next Torg campaign or Swords of the Serpentine one-shot or 13th Age game I decide to run.

It's the same as the TSR books I have. I stopped buying from TSR when I found out what a terrible company they were, but I kept all my books and felt free to use them for other, non-TSR games.

It's fine. The secret behind roleplaying is that you actually don't need any specific company to make anything at all to play once you know how it works. I once ran a game of "D&D" with the contents of a Yahtzee box. I like supporting companies who do good work, but it's not like their stuff is necessary, just nice to have.

 

[UngeheuerLich]

Intersted in all. But it really depends on what is actually in it.

 

[DEFCON 1]

100% it is. As I noted when this all kicked off though, I'm from the GW crowd that would melt their armies in outrage. Whats a few books of dubious value?

Good on you for acknowledging it's over the top! If you had acted as though this was a perfectly reasonable reaction that everyone should take I would have been a bit worried. But if going complete scorched earth is the most fun way for you to channel your anger, then go for it.

Heck... I just watched Red Letter Media on YouTube throw like a thousand video cassette copies of a movie called 'Nukie' into a wood chipper, so I can see how utter destruction of non-necessities can be a thrill, LOL. Not to mention them also melting down thousands of Star Wars action figures in a giant vat of acid too a couple years ago.