WotC WotC'S May Community Update Talks School Support, Accessibilty, & Creator Marketplaces

The Community Update page on D&D Beyond has a new entry which briefly covers topics such as ongoing support for schools and clubs, accessibilty of D&D Beyond for players with disabilities, early plans for the third-party creator marketplace, plans for convention attendance, and the upcoming Virtual Tabletop.

It's mainly a (very brief) recap of things which came out of the recent D&D Creator Summit (see D&D Creator Summit--VTT & One D&D, D&D Creator Summit--'D&D Beyond And Beyond', D&D Creator Summit -- Morning Sessions) but the key points include:

• One D&D reiterated again as being 5th edition, not a new edition. This is something WotC is repeating frequently, and is a message they are clearly very keen to get across.
• School and club support includes teaching kits, afterschool club kits, and free access to D&D Beyond resources for educators.
• Plans to connect with accessibility experts to ensure D&D Beyond is a tool that everybody can use.
• Migration to D&D Beyond as the 'front door' of D&D.
• Intention to eventually create a third party marketplace, but this is a long way in the future.
• A new creator summit at Gen Con in August.
• Pre-alpha tests of the VTT with small groups.

D&D Community Update

D&D Beyond - Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition Tools, Rules, Races, Classes, Items, Spells, Monsters, and More

www.dndbeyond.com

 

[darjr]

If it bothers you ignore the negative.

Post something positive. There is a lot cool in that update. Surely something you’d like to discuss?

 

[JAMUMU]

And ... once again every thread has to devolve into trashing WOTC.

No man, that's just people posting their opinions, in a light-hearted way. Until ENWorld mandates positive-posts-only-regarding-our-corporate-overlords, I guess WoTC are gunna keep getting mentioned in dispatches.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Early May: We've redoubled our free content for educators, and we recommit to attending GenCon and hosting Creator Summits. Oh! And D&DBeyond is doing an Extra Life fundraiser.

I really wish they'd post it to DMs Guild as well. Drive folks to D&D Beyond with something other than a charity drive for sick kids.

 

[occam]

No man, that's just people posting their opinions, in a light-hearted way. Until ENWorld mandates positive-posts-only-regarding-our-corporate-overlords, I guess WoTC are gunna keep getting mentioned in dispatches.

No one's saying that there isn't a right to be negative in the opinions they post, just that the unrelenting negativity about WotC is tiresome, and unproductive. Unrelenting negativity about anything is tiresome and unproductive.

 

[Parmandur]

I appreciate that they are moving forward with another summit and seem to have taken feedback on board. If they can keep that up, with the leadership clearly learning, that would be awesome.

 

[JAMUMU]

No one's saying that there isn't a right to be negative in the opinions they post, just that the unrelenting negativity about WotC is tiresome, and unproductive. Unrelenting negativity about anything is tiresome and unproductive.

Unrelenting negativity about corporate neo-feudalism is the new beige, comrade!

 

[jerryrice4949]

And ... once again every thread has to devolve into trashing WOTC.

Yeah some people here have too much free time.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Should we make a separate thread for people to complain about people complaining about WotC? Almost half of this thread is now a meta discussion once again.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Are they planning to fix the stuff in D&D Beyond that hasn't worked for years, like making basic spells or class features like Mage Armor or Barbarian Rage actually show up on character sheets when they are in effect?

Edit: Just realized this is a "WOTC update" not a "DND Beyond" update. My mistake.
Still would like them to fix basic things in the tools though.

Tbh I really think they have a new underlying system in dev, and that’s why they haven’t fixed anything since buying DDB.

Maybe it’s the “general features” system the DDB folks talked about before the purchase, maybe something else, but IMO it’s gotta be something like that.

 

[Micah Sweet]

You can always start a WotC "+" thread.