7 Years of D&D Stories? And a "Big Reveal" Coming?

When asked what he was working on, WotC's Chris Perkins revealed a couple of juicy tidbits. They're not much, but they're certainly tantalizing. Initially, he said that "Our marketing team has a big reveal in the works", and followed that up separately with "Right now I'm working on the next seven years of D&D stories". What all that might mean is anybody's guess, but it sounds like there are plans for D&D stretching into the foreseeable future! Thanks to Barantor for the scoop!

 

[Sailor Moon]

I think you are overestimate the surplus value of a DnD movie and the impact to the PnP rpg. Take as an example Lord of the Rings and Hobbit. They have produced two rpgs, one from Decipher and one from Cubicle 7 (which is imo is the best adaptation of Tolkien), but I can't see these to influenced in the tolkien-themed rpg industry. And have in mind that Cubicle 7 adaptation is top notch. The movies helped the fantasy genre but i doubt had so big influence to the rpgs.

The same goes to the dnd movies. I don't think we will see great differance in the rpg. I doubt that even some of the profits of the hypothetical movie will go to the rpg department.
Just my thoughts ofc.

I agree.

All those comic movies didn't help with comicbook sales to be honest.

Some movies will leave their impression in society but others will not. D&D is just one of those things that people will have heard of but won't ever take seriously. I don't care what movie companies are after the rights because they can be wrong as well, and have been many many times over the years. D&D is not a place nor is it a specific character or characters like Lord of the Rings or the various comic book characters.

 

[Staffan]

I probably overstated when saying I don't want WotC listening to customer feedback on stories . . . but I don't want them to rely on feedback on story telling, as I feel that can overly limit creativity. It's why we got "Dragon Magic" in 3E, and why certain story elements get beaten to death and become tired (not just D&D, but in general).

Personally, I liked Dragon Magic. It's one of the books that have gotten me the closest to make my own setting to take advantage of all the coolness in it.

It's a sequel, and there's nothing inherently wrong with sequels, although they are often screwed up (or prequels, right my Stars Wars brothers?!).

What's this about Star Wars prequels? That sounds almost as preposterous as a Highlander sequel.

 

[Sailor Moon]

Personally, I liked Dragon Magic. It's one of the books that have gotten me the closest to make my own setting to take advantage of all the coolness in it.



What's this about Star Wars prequels? That sounds almost as preposterous as a Highlander sequel.

Highlander 2 *shivers*. I still have nightmares about that movie.

 

[BryonD]

Highlander 2 *shivers*. I still have nightmares about that movie.

There was a sequel?

sorry, just realized I copied a joke right above me. Not very clever.

 

[Sailor Moon]

There was a sequel?

They were supposedly aliens in that movie.

 

[tgmoore]

People keep talking about movies that do not exist and likely never will exist. Hasbro is a toy company and there aren't even any freaking D&D toys. Seriously think about that for a moment. There are big, expensive and complicated board games but no $30 D&D casual family board game. There is a middling FTP MMORPG but no MOBA or even decent CRPG. Paizo is even beating them on the comics rack. There is all this talk about what Hasbro is going to do in other media but they have owned D&D for over 15 years and the greatest penetration D&D has is two episodes of Community.

There are Hasbro's answer to Lego called Kre-O which has D&D themed building play sets.

The Dungeon board game has a MSRP of $25 and is a casual family game.

 

[Mistwell]

I stopped being excited about anything 5e months ago.

7 years of stories worked up, but they cannot produce a decent standalone adventure module for sale this year.

The playtest adventures are all (or perhaps almost all) decent to good, and stand-alone.

 

[Jester David]

Highlander 2 *shivers*. I still have nightmares about that movie.

Endgame? It wasn't that bad and I liked seeing Connor and Duncan together.

Or was there another that I'm repressing?

 

[SirAntoine]

They are always working on something. I would bring in as much outside talent as possible.

 

[bmfrosty]

Endgame? It wasn't that bad and I liked seeing Connor and Duncan together.

Or was there another that I'm repressing?

Who's Duncan?