Crawford confirms the brilliant strategy of the D&D team. Thanks for posting the highlights Morrus. Sales and fans returning to D&D are proof that they are doing something right.
Bravo!
Bravo!
Crawford confirms the brilliant strategy of the D&D team.
They are not yet announcing what Pendleton Ward's project is.
I think it is. "Nimble" means being responsive, which is impossible if you've planned your line years in advance.Maybe their idea of nimble (or the industry's idea of nimble) is different from mine.
There will be a mix of products coming. As well as the material in partnership with Kobold Press, Sasquatch, Green Ronin, etc., there is also product they're doing alone which has not been announced yet.
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To get obscure hints about what's coming, read current adventures very carefully.
The announcement schedule is about focus on the next thing to create a common experience among players. He and Mike Mearls liked that a common experience like that existed in early days, where it was a big deal when a product came out.
Releases are synced up with Encounters seasons and D&D video games which feature the same storylines. The Neverwinter MMO and Sword Coast Legends both feature the Rage of Demons storyline, for example.
Other settings - "Nothing to announce right now." Other settings are all over the core books, with the multiverse emphasized as the official setting. Forgotten Realms is the most popular setting, but other settings are part of the multiverse.
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Tiamat in Tyranny of Dragons failed with Krynn, and so tried again someplace else. It's not a Dragonlance story transplanted to the Realms, it's a multiverse story with villains which exist in some form or another in the entire multiverse. Princes of Elemental Evil bombed out in Greyhawk, so tried somewhere else. The demon lords don't just threaten one world, they threaten them all.
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In some upcoming material, famous characters from other settings may show up under different names. It is canon that Elminster (FR), Mordenkainen (Greyhawk), and Dalamar (Dragonlance) know each other. This sort of thing will come more to the fore as one giant connected multiverse.
The mantra is quality over quantity. A different tempo. That has been successful so far.
In some upcoming material, famous characters from other settings may show up under different names. It is canon that Elminster (FR), Mordenkainen (Greyhawk), and Dalamar (Dragonlance) know each other. This sort of thing will come more to the fore as one giant connected multiverse.
The players who are into both must feel like they're in a D&D renaissance right now. I wonder if this is causing the influx of players, i.e. videogames-->tabletop. They've definitely created a model that better equipped to succeed where 4e smade missteps (IMHO, 5e draws videogamers into the tabletop via similar events/narratives, while 4e tried to draw them in via similar videogame-like mechanics).
Lets not get hung up on the exact dictionary meaning of a single word again, please, folks.
In some upcoming material, famous characters from other settings may show up under different names. It is canon that Elminster (FR), Mordenkainen (Greyhawk), and Dalamar (Dragonlance) know each other. This sort of thing will come more to the fore as one giant connected multiverse.
Until they ease up on the ridiculous Avengers-inspired cinematic universe approach, I will continue to have little confidence in WotC. This is the ADHD/Magpie Generation, hopping from one shiny new thing to the next at a pace never before seen. Sustainability is the fav new buzzword for business....this audience will not sustain the shared world concept.
Carry on with a storyline, sure, absolutely, but detach the insane connectedness of things. Loosen the stranglehold it has on products that are not the adventure modules themselves. 5e and D&D deserves better. Paizo is showing how it's done. You combine that type of separation but with WotC's more guarded and slower release schedule....
....ugh, nevermind lol. I'm just not in the target audience anymore. Long live D&D and game on folks.![]()
"It is canon that Elminster (FR), Mordenkainen (Greyhawk), and Dalamar (Dragonlance) know each other" - does anyone know anything else about it?
Tiamat implied to be Takhisis?!? Obviously he was suffering a cold and on sudafed. Obviously.