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When video games get delayed because of actual development taking longer than expected (as opposed to marketing or distribution concerns which might push the release date around by a few weeks), they're typically pushed back a full 6 months - sometimes more than once, if even the suits are...

Man, if it IS a MM2, I doubt those dates are anywhere close to matching up with reality. September 8th is what, a hair more than four months away? They'd have announced it by now if that's the release date they were going to go with.

I doubt it's going to be an AP set in Ravenloft. They just said their focus is going to be on the Realms for the forseeable future. Assuming it's part of an actual product and not an Unearthed Arcana article, it'd probably their "Alice In Wonderland / Feywild" AP. That'd be easily translated to...

That's just diabolical. Totally stealing it!

Dracula is public domain in the US, but Universal is the studio going to court for the D&D film rights with Hasbro's backing, so it makes sense that they wouldn't want two separate, high-visibility franchises both featuring vampire lords going at the same time.

There might even be a perfect storm brewing, where Hasbro would LOVE to get Ward on it because of his other successful shows, but also where (if all the D&D references in his shows actually mean anything) Ward himself would jump at the chance to do the official D&D show because he's a longtime...

Now that is a really interesting idea. I'm still ~95% certain it's an AP they're talking about, but a successful D&D animated series would be the perfect way to leverage the IP and potentially funnel newcomers into the player base.

There's no way this is going to have anything to do with Adventure Time itself. It's definitely exciting that Pendleton Ward is going to be contributing to D&D (I'm almost positive this'll be the "Alice in Wonderland"-themed AP, it's a perfect fit for his style), but people are leaping to wildly...

It is astonishing how closely this parallels a lot of RPG gamers' complaints about D&D itself. :p

Risk - first published in France in 1957 as La Conquête du Monde, bought and released as Risk by Parker Brothers in 1959. Scrabble - first published in 1938 as Lexico, sold and renamed as Scrabble in 1948, purchased by Hasbro in 1986. Trouble - first sold in 1965 by Milton Bradley. The Game...

I suspect they still want to sell folks the core books, but are just being realistic about the fact that not everyone who is interested in getting into the hobby is going to jump at the opportunity of paying $150 for the core books. Basic is a great alternative, "the first taste is always free"...

I actually agree with everything you're saying here. We know from the front page that the Starter Sets can be found at some Wal-Marts, but it's probably hardly on their radar - just another box from Hasbro for them to put on the shelves. A successful triple AAA video game or smash hit at the...

Heh, even when Wizards literally gives something away for free, they have to deal with complaints about why they didn't put it out in physical form. I suspect they're making very little margin, if any, off the $7.99 POD option - it has to be worth it just to not have to pay any more attention to...

You know, I understand exactly where you're coming from, but I really don't think they're doing things this way to "punish" people for not supporting 4E, or for making Pathfinder so successful. Despite Pathfinder's success, I think there are bigger threats to D&D these days. Honestly, I think...

I have a theory about how they're planning to approach D&D this edition cycle. I can't claim it's 100% correct, but it tracks with everything they've been saying, and more importantly, with what they've been doing up to this point. The most profitable part of selling D&D is always the initial...

I agree wholeheartedly, though I think they might prefer digital as it means spending less on products that probably won't bring in as much as the bigger APs. I can see them bringing back Dragon and Dungeon as electronic magazines before I see softcover modules on store shelves, though of course...

Is it though? Or is it targeting a far larger portion of the customer base? A campaign setting only appeals to those interested in running that campaign setting, or those who are creating their own setting and want to mine it for ideas. An adventure path on the other hand, appeals to those who...

That's an extremely important question to answer, and I'm actually pretty hopeful about the strategy Wizard's come up in response to it. Mike Mearls has talked about it before when the topic of D&D's competition came up - the competition isn't Paizo, or FFG, or Evil Hat, it's instant...

The cynic in me says that's why the APs are set in the Forgotten Reams - if they're not going to put out a campaign setting book any time soon, then that'll drive the fans to buy the APs, as that's going to be the only source of new Realmslore in the immediate future. That's of course assuming...

Has any edition of D&D ever provided ALL of the tools necessary for that? Let's say YOUR story is about a world where psionics play a major role. 2E, 3.0 and 3.5 didn't have psionics at release either, and 4E didn't introduce psionic classes until PHB 3. 5E And psionics is a relatively "big"...