D&D 5E (2024) PAX WotC Dungeons and Dragons speculation thread.

bedir than said:

At Wizards the Marketing team is using assets originally developed by the Studios.
Original art is extremely rare in their social or video.

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Reynard said:

I wasn't clear: I am not saying WotC is using GenAI in their marketing materials. What i am saying is that marketing departments appear to being hit with layoffs due to people being replaced by LLMs (for all kinds of work). I brought it up as a possible contributing factor as to why WotC's marketing department might be struggling.

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MonsterEnvy said:

Have we had soft bound player books at all? It seems odd to guess there will be more.

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sevenbastard said:

Im considering the Eberon booking coming out as a player facing book. I know it has some monsters, but I think the new class/species/ and player option are the main draw. Even if you dont agree I still think they can dip into the splat box realm.

My understanding is its softbound. I expect it wont be the only softbound book they try. Maybe im miss remembering and its a slim hardbound?

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sevenbastard said:

Im considering the Eberon booking coming out as a player facing book. I know it has some monsters, but I think the new class/species/ and player option are the main draw. Even if you dont agree I still think they can dip into the splat box realm.

My understanding is its softbound. I expect it wont be the only softbound book they try. Maybe im miss remembering and its a slim hardbound?

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sevenbastard said:

Im considering the Eberon booking coming out as a player facing book. I know it has some monsters, but I think the new class/species/ and player option are the main draw. Even if you dont agree I still think they can dip into the splat box realm.

My understanding is it’s softbound. I expect it wont be the only softbound book they try. Maybe im miss remembering and it’s a slim hardbound?

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sevenbastard said:

Im considering the Eberon booking coming out as a player facing book. I know it has some monsters, but I think the new class/species/ and player option are the main draw. Even if you dont agree I still think they can dip into the splat box realm.

My understanding is its softbound. I expect it wont be the only softbound book they try. Maybe im miss remembering and its a slim hardbound?

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bedir than said:

There's also no evidence that they're struggling.
The "Say yes to adventure" campaign is quite good. "The Realms will know your name" is brilliant.

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Reynard said:

Isn't that book harbound? The whole reason it was delayed was due to the hardcover bending?

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Paul Farquhar said:

It may be that they don’t have anything to market - they are clearly having problems with their manufacturing and distribution. They don’t want to be marketing for something when they don’t know when it will hit the shelves.

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