D&D (2024) August 18th Tarrasque-sized D&D News (Poll)

[Parmandur]

If that meant that only registered D&D Beyond users would be able to access and provide feedback on future UAs, that would be a mistake. The current model already limits their feedback pool to folks who pay attention to their web presence, that would restrict it much more.

If the D&D Beyond UAs remain publicly accessible and feedback is still through public polls, however, that would be fine.


100% agreed there, though.

D&D Beyond registration is 100% free...sure, at free, you are limited to the SRD, bit the free stuff is, well, free. And 10 million users being able.to ay around with the rules in their character sheet might give them some really useful data.

 

[JEB]

D&D Beyond registration is 100% free...sure, at free, you are limited to the SRD, bit the free stuff is, well, free. And 10 million users being able.to ay around with the rules in their character sheet might give them some really useful data.

And as long as non-D&D Beyond users would still be able to see and provide feedback on future UAs, that'd be fine.

 

[Nightfly]

It'd be too expensive anyway. As the saying goes, if you have Tarrasque, you can't afford it.

#angryupvote

 

[RFB Dan]

My pure optimism hope is that WotC has worked out a deal with Iron Wind Metals to rerelease the classic Ral Partha D&D minis from the 90s. I would also love it of they opened up the hibernating settings to the DMs Guild. I find the idea of 5e Birthright intriguing...

 

[Paul Farquhar]

What do we think the big news will be from Wizards on August 18th? Vote and discuss below!

I'm pretty certain that the correct answer is "other".

What it actually is, is a monster book focusing on giants and giant monsters (kaiju). It's quite literally tarrasque-sized, because it features tarrasques and similarly sized monsters.

 

[seebs]

What do we think the big news will be from Wizards on August 18th? Vote and discuss below!

It will be news that can be taken out by a single 1st level wizard with Chill Ray, or whatever that stupid trick was.

 

[R_J_K75]

...I wouldn't be surprised if something else snuck in this year...

I really hope you are right, and it is something very cool, very unexpected and a physical D&D product that drastically deviates from the norm of what they've released previously. A boxed set/slip case with 3-5 books that has something like the 2E Country Sites, City Sites and Dungeon Sites. The Book of Lairs series or the World Builders Guidebook and Dungeon Builders Guidebook. I know its wishful thinking and people are going to respond, "that's what DMs Guild is for, and there's little market for something like this", but between the rule's supplement books, monster manuals, and large hardback adventures I'd like to see them throw in something like this in there once in a great while. I got much use out of these types of books and would nowadays. I think it's safe to say that 5e will be winding down within the next year to year and a half and 5.5/6E will probably be released around this time in 2024 so I'm not really too interested in a classic campaign setting 5E conversion unless it's done this year or early to mid-next year. I'm choosing other in the poll, not because it's what I think they are going to release but it's what I'd like to see, something nostalgic that's not a legacy campaign setting.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

I think you are right about the level of changes, band that they will even call it a 6E. But nothing that has been show so far calls for a Next style Playtest, when the UA regime is already working on it.

Nonetheless I expect they will do a non-UA playtest, as it'd be extremely useful marketing, because the news would be spammed far and wide, and a bunch of people who have never played D&D, but have heard about it a ton (yes even including from bloody Stranger Things!) would download/access the playtest and likely be fascinated by it. Also as noted they could use it to push Beyond sign-up rates (and some of those will convert to subscribers, and subscription is the Holy Grail here).

Needed isn't always what matters!

 

[Ruin Explorer]

A boxed set/slip case with 3-5 books that has something like the 2E Country Sites, City Sites and Dungeon Sites. The Book of Lairs series or the World Builders Guidebook and Dungeon Builders Guidebook.

I'd love that, but even in 2E, those didn't sell, that's real bar.

 

[R_J_K75]

I'd love that, but even in 2E, those didn't sell, that's real bar.

I know it's just wishful thinking