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

 

[Zaukrie]

This is an emotional situation for many people, so it should be expected that folks will react emotionally. For myself, I don't like WotC and I mostly don't like OneD&D. Given the opportunity to respond to complaints about something they are doing, I have no problem encouraging folks to seek out other 5e companies, or other games as appropriate. Since this is a less viable option for WotC owned settings, those discussions are naturally more frustrating and can get heated, but otherwise there are other companies IMO more deserving of my money.

I literally edited that post to delete it.....not sure why that wasn't clear?

 

[Micah Sweet]

I literally edited that post to delete it.....not sure why that wasn't clear?

I wanted to expand on my earlier point. Sorry to tag you.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

If you are tired of threads being full of people bashing WotC, STOP HIJACKING THE THREAD TO DEBATE THE ISSUE. Just send a note to a moderator instead.

 

[Oofta]

I understand being tired of it, but obviously people are still pretty angry. Sometimes not expressing that anger when given the opportunity can feel like forgiveness.

So start a "Trash WOTC " thread and leave other threads to people that want to discuss whatever the thread topic is.

I know it's too much to ask for, but I can dream, right?

 

[Parmandur]

So start a "Trash WOTC " thread and leave other threads to people that want to discuss whatever the thread topic is.

I know it's too much to ask for, but I can dream, right?

Just don't feed whoever you are speaking to with attention.

 

[Parmandur]

I’m curious when a new D&D direct/product update will happen. I’d like to see more information on some of the books coming out this year.

Whelp, Bigby's is the next book, in Q3. So that's July, at the earliest, so I expect we'll start getting previews for thst sometime in the next month or so.

 

[Oofta]

If you are tired of threads being full of people bashing WotC, STOP HIJACKING THE THREAD TO DEBATE THE ISSUE. Just send a note to a moderator instead.

There's no violation of official policy that I know of.

 

[Micah Sweet]

So start a "Trash WOTC " thread and leave other threads to people that want to discuss whatever the thread topic is.

I know it's too much to ask for, but I can dream, right?

Now, you know no one reads isolated "quarantine" threads like that.

 

[Parmandur]

There's no violation of official policy that I know of.

There are methods to avoid toxicity.

 

[Morrus]

So start a "Trash WOTC " thread and leave other threads to people that want to discuss whatever the thread topic is.

I know it's too much to ask for, but I can dream, right?

So, to be clear to everybody (thus the red text--this isn't me moderating Oofta, but it is an 'announcement' with a general 'you' -- there is zero chance of us enforcing a 'you can't criticize WotC' rule. There's just no good version of that. If there are certain posters who do it too much for your tastes, the ignore function is your friend, but we're not here to moderate opinions you disagree with.