D&D 5E (2014) 5e Boxed Sets, what should WotC make?

darjr · Mar 13, 2021

What boxed sets should WotC make?

I think there should be an 'expert' boxed set going from 7th to 12th level.
Also Gammaworld and Starfrontiers.

what else? What crazy thing should WotC put in a 5e D&D ruleset box? Or maybe not even a D&D 5e box but maybe something else too? what?

Umbran · Mar 13, 2021

I don't know what should be in a boxed set. I know what I'd prefer wasn't.

If it would work perfectly well in one book, don't break it up into several pamphlets, put them in a box, and sell it to me as if there's some value added.

robus · Mar 13, 2021

I think Wotc should release a themed beginner set each holiday season.

MNblockhead · Mar 13, 2021

A "The Legend of Vox Machina" boxed set, pushed by both Hasbro and Amazon, using many of the artists that worked on the animated series to make the art for the books. Should be more like a pathfinder boxed set with punch out cardboard pog minis, some generic battlemaps, and some cards for items, etc. It needs to be priced right. Has to be more than the current boxed sets to make it feel like a more hefty, everything you need to get started, game. But no so expensive that it would be passed over as too expensive for christmas/bday presents.

If the Amazon series takes off and if the boxed set has a lot of goodies besides some booklets and dice, I could take D&D even further into the main stream. Since the D&D movie is still a long way off, this would seem the best the best bet for a ubiquitous box set to be available in Target, Walmart, etc. (and of course on Amazon) by Christmas 2021.

darjr · Mar 13, 2021

This is what I came for!

JEB · Mar 13, 2021

First mentioned this in another thread, but setting-specific boxed sets could be more appealing to the casual player than the $50 hardcover. Plus (as mentioned by someone else) it would add to the scope of what D&D could be to the casual market.

TwiceBorn2 · Mar 13, 2021

Greyhawk 50th anniversary boxed set in 2024. That might be cool.

Parmandur · Mar 13, 2021

Umbran said:
I don't know what should be in a boxed set. I know what I'd prefer wasn't.

If it would work perfectly well in one book, don't break it up into several pamphlets, put them in a box, and sell it to me as if there's some value added.

Great point. Bouncing off of that, what worked great for the Essentials Kit is having a ton of board game like paraphernalia: handouts, cards, tokens, etc.

I'd go for something along that line: maybe some paper miniatures.

delericho · Mar 13, 2021

Parmandur said:
Great point. Bouncing off of that, what worked great for the Essentials Kit is having a ton of board game like paraphernalia: handouts, cards, tokens, etc.

I'd go for something along that line: maybe some paper miniatures.

If they're going to do a boxed set, this is probably the way to go - you need to play to the strengths of the format.

On the other hand, I wonder about the utility of a boxed set in these days - it remains to be seen whether the post-Covid world will see a mass return to face-to-face gaming or if electronic gaming will remain vastly more popular. (I'm not saying "don't do it", of course. I'm seeing "wait and see".)

hopeless · Mar 13, 2021

How about one set around something like Sharandar from Neverwinter?
Establish a call for help from the nearby wood elf community as they're beset by trolls, ogres, goblins and redcaps who are also preying on the logging community whose produce is keeping the nearby settlement running as otherwise the trade that runs through here would divert to somewhere else and this prospering community is in danger of becoming a ghost town!
Can your PCs discover what is going on and discovering what the wood elves are desperate to protect as a long lost elvish ruin hides a portal into the Feywild and that's what the fighting is all about.

Could a 5e version of either the Keep on the Borderlands or In Search of the Unknown as a boxed set work?