D&D (2024) Are we going to see DMG previews?

[mamba]

Then 5e should not be hailed as the triumph of "DM Empowerment" the way it has for literally an entire decade.

I have not seen it being hailed as that from anyone but you, quite the opposite

 

[mamba]

No, it just shows that they're looking at audience numbers and that's it.

I was a bit tongue in cheek, just do not like they guy....

This board is the nexus of hatred for D&D Shorts. Outside of some of the folks at ENWorld, no one else views him as the devil.

no idea what the rest of the world thinks of him, including on this board.

Well, if they had not sent him a copy, they would not have had their issue with the PHB being leaked early, so there is that at least

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Well, if they had not sent him a copy, they would not have had their issue with the PHB being leaked early, so there is that at least

Or if they had done the minimal work of making sure upper management and streamers were on the same page of what could be shown, they wouldn't be in that situation. But again, this probably would have involved not laying off marketing people right before the new corebooks were released.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

I did not mean to imply you considered that slow sales, but you did say that it was slow to ramp up, and that is where my 'sell out in a week' came from

Okay, right. I getcha.

that is weird, people are distracted I guess

Yeah, that's my best guess. There really is an awful lot competing for people's attention these days, and even when they're into something, the details can often be fuzzy. Memory is not quite what it used to be, either. I experience the phenomenon myself, but I also observe it in others (including my kids, their friends, my friends, and my customers).

 

[mamba]

Or if they had done the minimal work of making sure upper management and streamers were on the same page of what could be shown, they wouldn't be in that situation. But again, this probably would have involved not laying off marketing people right before the new corebooks were released.

still an overreaction after the fact imo, by now there are much better copies out there than his screenshot version. This was always going to happen and I do not think it is affecting their sales all that much either way. Someone grabbing that bad copy would have waited a week or two otherwise, but not gone out to buy the book instead

 

[SteveC]

As for what should be in the DMG, one could do a lot worse than to just crib from Matt Colville's "Running the Game" videos.

I have been doing the GMing thing for decades now, and I enjoy Matt's videos. I do think that there is a part of the audience for being a GM that would learn best by a book. I've suggested before that someone write a "how to GM" book in a generic sense, and then people who write RPGs could refer to it or even license it and not have to do the same thing for every game ever invented. For traditional RPGs (and I'm thinking stopping just before getting to the PbtA world) the skills are very similar. Of course I've also learned a ton about GMing traditional games by reading PbtA books as well.

I know that sort of undermines what I said before, but as I think about it, the world should have space for different types of learning styles as long as it gets more people to being a GM. Or DM in the D&D case. Having multiple vectors to GMing beats "have one of your friends show you about it" from my era.

 

[EzekielRaiden]

What's your point? Rules matter,

Not in 5e.

 

[EzekielRaiden]

That's a... surprisingly iron-clad declaration on your end. Having a "probably" or "likely" here and there might have been a better course, because if there's even one single video in the next six weeks, people are likely going to refer back to this post.

When I say "previews," I mean us actually seeing the text of the book in advance. Not "Look, we're making a DMG!" videos full of absolutely no actual content. Not "announcements" or the like. Actual, readable rules-text that we can sink our teeth into.

 

[Stormonu]

We got three previews from the Monster Manual a few weeks back. By your theory that is also a book that only one player needs to buy, so I don't think your theory holds.

Apparently, you couldn't see my tongue firmly implanted in my cheek.

Though the MM is a bit of an oddity as I think people like bestiaries and no matter what the DM says, people are gonna peek and wonder over the monsters. Besides, how else can the party's Druid waste their time between combats if not looking up the Ultimate Beast to transform into?

 

[UngeheuerLich]

A great idea would be doing, what they did for adventure anthologies: release one of the DMG adventures for free.