D&D 5E A NEW interview with Mike Mearls

[JeffB]

Disappointing news that this is the adventure support agenda for this edition. I was hoping to hear some better news with Dungeon Mag or at least something besides prescripted play along novels and held off purchasing the hardcovers. Glad I waited.

 

[Kramodlog]

It's more like 7 vs 20, for people actually working on the games. The 15 vs 50 isn't really a good way to look at it, as a lot of the 50 are jobs that non-D&D WOTC employees would do as part of the larger sub-division of WOTC (HR, Marketing, Facilities, Payroll, etc.) which itself is part of the even larger Hasbro which also has some jobs that Paizo has in those 50.

Thank you for not answering my question. That was very not informative.

 

[Morrus]

Disappointing news that this is the adventure support agenda for this edition. I was hoping to hear some better news with Dungeon Mag or at least something besides prescripted play along novels and held off purchasing the hardcovers. Glad I waited.

You didn't hear there wouldn't be a Dungeon Mag. You merely heard that the two-hardcover storyline model would be twice a year. Don't jump the gun!

Dungeon will return. I bet my dog on it! The format, I don't know. But it will return.

 

[Zaran]

The only thing I have to say about whether Dungeon will return is who is going to produce it? If they have employees for that then the magazine should already have started up again. It almost seems to me that they have no one but mechanics people and anything else they that do like settings and adventures has to be done by freelancers.

 

[JeffB]

According to the last interview, the mags are in limbo still, [MENTION=1]Morrus[/MENTION].

 

[Morrus]

According to the last interview, the mags are in limbo still, [MENTION=1]Morrus[/MENTION].

This interview? It says nothing of the sort.

I still bet Dungeon will return in some form. You know game companies - they think their product plans for tabletop games are national security issues, and that it's bad if their customers know about them. I think it's what happens when you immerse yourself in a fantasy world for a living.

 

[Grainger]

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[JeffB]

This interview? It says nothing of the sort.

I still bet Dungeon will return in some form. You know game companies - they think their product plans for tabletop games are national security issues, and that it's bad if their customers know about them. I think it's what happens when you immerse yourself in a fantasy world for a living.

IDK which interview, but someone quoted Mearls on it in the last several days. Essentially, no news on magazines and print is a dead issue.

At any rate, the current plans do not work for me. Going back to the Playtests, this has always been the big issue for me whether I buy into 5e. Solid high quality adventure support...dungeon mag , standalones. So far there was better support for that type of adventure scale, during the playtest with Ghosts, murder, lotCS,and the handful of pdfs for 5e they released on Dnd classics.

 

[Morrus]

IDK which interview, but someone quoted Mearls on it in the last several days. Essentially, no news on magazines and print is a dead issue.

We know there's no news on magazines on account of there being no news on magazines.

No news on magazines isn't the same as no magazines. It means they're just not telling you.

That said, it seems there is done important news on magazines - you say WotC has said publicly that print magazines are definitely out? I did not know this (and it's my job to!) Could you try to remember where you saw this? It's a major, major scoop.

 

[JeffB]

Sorry Morrus, not sure where it was. It was an interview from another site, that much I remember. But someone quoted it here. Talking about how low print subs got before DDI, no plans for print dhe to overall bad state of print magazines, and still unsure of what was going on with the magazines in the future.