D&D (2024) D&D at Pax preview adventure

[MockingBird]

Doesn't matter, since there is no opportunity cost in using them. If a few people like them and a whole lot of people don't recognise them, that's a few more than nobody at all recognises them.

And just because a player is younger, it doesn't mean they have no interest in the game's history.

Yeah I agree, that was the point I was attempting to make.

 

[R_J_K75]

It’s a pre-written adventure, not a sandbox.

Your point being? Hopefully it's an NPC TPK.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Your point being? Hopefully it's an NPC TPK.

The point being there isn’t much opportunity to develop the character of a villain when they only show up at the end for the players to beat up. So you use one that already has a presence. It’s a common narrative technique.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

Thats a Negative

So they shouldn't do new things, or old things?

 

[DarkCrisis]

I love it. I bit of nostalgia for us older gamers isn't going to hurt anyone.

And some of you seem to be forgetting when WotC was running the episodes back to back for like a day or 2 on Youtube and a lot of D&D lovers old and new were tuning it and talking about it.

Just because you don't like it doesn't mean others don't as well. Kind of like any Ed of D&D.

 

[Umbran]

Your point being? Hopefully it's an NPC TPK.

Mod Note:
Could you stop threadcrapping, please? Thanks.

 

[Yaarel]

The heroes and villains of the Cartoon will be much higher levels now. It will be interesting to see how they develop.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

We will likely find out if this is just a taste of a fuller adventure at D&D Direct next week.

 

[Mirrorrorrim]

Honestly, as someone who started playing g in the 21st century and hence lacking nostalgia for this stuff...I think it is actually rather mysterious that TSR and WotC haven't made more use of the cartoon and action figure stuff until recently?

Wizards of the Coast, like many companies, is not led by the same people over the years. Leadership changes, Brand and Design teams change, restrictive partnership licenses expire, and as time progresses, opportunities occur to introduce new generations to older IP content are increased. And if they do it right, they hit the nostalgia button for older fans, and can create something memorable that can become the future nostalgia for a new generation of fans.

Some companies get it pretty right, and some miss the mark, but for the most part it is subjective. For instance there are different people from different generations who each think each one of the three Star Wars trilogies is better than the others.

Some people loved the easter eggs of the cartoon heroes showing up in DnDHAT, and even a car commercial!

Will Wizards do a good job with an adventure featuring the cartoon characters as pre-gens? Who knows? For one thing, it's going to have the unaliving of enemies, so it won't be the same energy as the cartoon.

 

[Parmandur]

Wizards of the Coast, like many companies, is not led by the same people over the years. Leadership changes, Brand and Design teams change, restrictive partnership licenses expire, and as time progresses, opportunities occur to introduce new generations to older IP content are increased. And if they do it right, they hit the nostalgia button for older fans, and can create something memorable that can become the future nostalgia for a new generation of fans.

Some companies get it pretty right, and some miss the mark, but for the most part it is subjective. For instance there are different people from different generations who each think each one of the three Star Wars trilogies is better than the others.

Some people loved the easter eggs of the cartoon heroes showing up in DnDHAT, and even a car commercial!

Will Wizards do a good job with an adventure featuring the cartoon characters as pre-gens? Who knows? For one thing, it's going to have the unaliving of enemies, so it won't be the same energy as the cartoon.

True, I just find it strange in retrospect that they weren't playing this card 20 years ago. Times change.