D&D 5E Chaotic Origins of the Deck of Many Things, WotC video

[Parmandur]

Having a default setting they can get the public to firmly identify as being "D&D" when that name is used helps when it comes to making future movies, cartoons and videogames and is them leveraging something they own that is not also shared via Creative Commons.

I think WotC is almost certainly going to go whole hog on the Great Wheel setting from here on out.

Well, fir sure, but theybseem to have leaned into sharing stuff particularly hard this year.

It's on DMs Guild. It's not outside of WotC.

I'd love if one of the 10 million lawyers ENWorld turned out to have posting here last winter could chime in on whether "Manual of the Planes" is generic enough for anyone to use without WotC's permission, though.

IANAL, but because of DTRPG/DMsGuild, the older Manual of the Planes is still "in print" for legal trademark purposes. So, no, a third party from outside of the DMsGuild could not use the name. The internal to DMsGuild standard is that directly using 5E book names is a no-go, but older Edition stuff is open as long as it is generic or under one of the opened Settings.

 

[Parmandur]

I think that's just a thing that they do - the one year I bought pretty much everything they put out was 2021, and everything seemed to tie into each other in some way: Tashas had easter eggs for Witchlight, the carnival in Witchlight tied into the carnival in Van Richtens, Tashas had art assets for both Azalin and Rhys, etc etc.

Ittrue: I almost suspect that Golden Keys got started as the cutting room floor for the Planrscape Set, however, given how big the overlap for some of this stuff is.

 

[ersatzphil]

Ittrue: I almost suspect that Golden Keys got started as the cutting room floor for the Planrscape Set, however, given how big the overlap for some of this stuff is.

Are there more Planescape things in Keys beyond the train?

 

[Parmandur]

Are there more Planescape things in Keys beyond the train?

There is also the Nine Hells "themed" casino, which feels a bit like it came out of a Gatetown, and the Adventure with the evil Genie Warlord who has the Book of Vile Darkness feels like it came from the Outlands more than the average Ptime Material.

 

[Clint_L]

They explored the god of fate giving a reading to two new iconic characters Euryale and Asteria, a Druid Medusa and Paladin that is also their first autistic character.

Representation FTW! Proud parent of a child with ASD