Coming in May: Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes! [UPDATED!]

So they just gave the title and showed the cover mock-ups; no specific info till Monday?

 

[Morrus]

Coming in May: Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes!

Well, it's posted here now

You need to read the whole conversation. We weren’t referring to this announcement, but the nebulous hints someone said we should have been aware of.

 

[Morrus]

Coming in May: Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes!

It got posted to their YouTube page, and it prompted one of those viewers to post it in the 5e face book group with tens of thousands of active users. And the other d&d Facebook group also with tens of thousands of active users changed the cover page to the cover of the book beacause of the stream.

Then on reddit and the piazza and all over Twitter. This little off the cuff leak generated quite a bit of buzz.

Not to forget here on ENWorld itself.

Wrong subject. You read the reply but not the post it was replying to. The topic in question was the various hints apparently released over the last few weeks, not this announcement.

Obviously, this announcement got good reach.

 

[darjr]

Ah. I’m at work “unplanned” and not paying enough attention to this thread.

Just keeping an eye on performance.

 

[Parmandur]

You need to read the whole conversation. We weren’t referring to this announcement, but the nebulous hints someone said we should have been aware of.

I don't know about "should" have been aware of, but easily could have been.

 

[Ash Mantle]

Definitely looking forward to this supplement; 5e's supplements have generally being of excellent quality and we've been able to get a lot of use out of the content therein.

Wrong subject. You read the reply but not the post it was replying to. The topic in question was the various hints apparently released over the last few weeks, not this announcement.

Obviously, this announcement got good reach.

Generally the hints of what the 5e team were planning on getting to next were talked about through the D&D Beyond videos, these generally get quite a fair bit of views, definitely upwards of 10k on average (depending on the videos).

 

[Morrus]

I don't know about "should" have been aware of, but easily could have been.

You easily could be aware of most any news or fact in the world. Whether it reaches you is not a measure of your diligence. What was the 6th episode of s9 of Only Fools & Horses? You *could* be aware of that.

We're discussing reach here, not research diligence. They're different things.

 

[Morrus]

definitely upwards of 10k on average

Exactly.

 

[Ash Mantle]

You need to read the whole conversation. We weren’t referring to this announcement, but the nebulous hints someone said we should have been aware of.

The more nebulous hints I'd wager would be the Modron March banner that Chris Perkins had as a Twitter banner (it's gone now) and his teasing of Planescape and the Mercykiller faction in his Dice, Camera, Action game.

 

[GarrettKP]

You easily could be aware of most any news or fact in the world. Whether it reaches you is not a measure of your diligence. What was the 6th episode of s9 of Only Fools & Horses? You *could* be aware of that.

We're discussing reach here, not research diligence. They're different things.

The original comment that started this simply said that Wizards has been "hamfistedly previewing" the book. It said nothing about reach. WotC has in fact been leaving a trail of breadcrumbs for at least a month now, and one could argue even farther back if you look at the trends in UAs. Regardless of whether or not people paid attention, the fact is hints were left. I don't see how reach has anything to do with that. No one said they had been advertising the hints on every outlet they could, only that they were putting info out there. Whether the info reached you or not is not what was in question.

 

[Morrus]

The original comment that started this simply said that Wizards has been "hamfistedly previewing" the book. It said nothing about reach.

Conversations evolve. I later brought up reach.

WotC has in fact been leaving a trail of breadcrumbs for at least a month now, and one could argue even farther back if you look at the trends in UAs. Regardless of whether or not people paid attention, the fact is hints were left. I don't see how reach has anything to do with that. No one said they had been advertising the hints on every outlet they could, only that they were putting info out there. Whether the info reached you or not is not what was in question.

I don't really know what that means. Sure, if you like. Not really what the conversation was about. It's starting to smell a bit culty in here. Do you guys want me to say "Yay! WotC's marketing strategy is the bestest of them all!"?

If that will make you feel good, then sure, it is. The bestest. Of them all. Does that feel nice?

Jeez, dude. All I said was that that the hints didn't hit the news sites. It's not controversial.