Diablo RPG Kickstarter signup is live

[tydelyt]

Nothing during last week's Diablo anniversary event, despite Glass Cannon's presence - very disappointing affair so far.

 

[darjr]

I have no idea what’s going on.

 

[mamba]

Nothing during last week's Diablo anniversary event, despite Glass Cannon's presence - very disappointing affair so far.

yeah, apparently this was originally meant to be released in 2024 and kept getting delayed repeatedly to the point that we still had no KS and do not even have a date for one? That is not inspiring confidence in me

At BlizzCon 2023, Blizzard Entertainment announced a tabletop roleplaying game and a boardgame based on the Diablo series of video games. The TTRPG is slated for a 2024 crowdfunding campaign

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/diablo-the-roleplaying-game-announced-coming-next-year/1100-6518906/

“The game will be available for everyone to buy in Fall 2024 following a Kickstarter campaign set to debut sometime soon.”

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Any time Blizzard says "soon," you have to add two to three years.

 

[cbwjm]

I'd completely forgotten that this existed, it's been so long.

 

[Weiley31]

Do we have any news about this, the Kickstarter has not started yet despite the planned date coming and going

Nothing during last week's Diablo anniversary event, despite Glass Cannon's presence - very disappointing affair so far.

I have no idea what’s going on.

Any time Blizzard says "soon," you have to add two to three years.

I theorize that one reason its taking so long is that they are waiting for BOTH the Paladin AND Warlock from the Lord of Hatred D4 expansion to release so that way they are choosable class options for this. As somebody mentioned before, the class choice for this is probably gonna be D4 focused. Paladin was released as early access last year but Warlock is still coming for the full release. Aside from Binding Demons, we don't know what the D4 Warlock skill set will be.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Aside from Binding Demons, we don't know what the D4 Warlock skill set will be.

I mean, we actually do, in some detail, because IGN accidentally published an extremely long video preview, and whilst they de-published it a bit later, it wasn't until after multiple streamers had done "react" streams to it (which included showing it in full), some of which are still up I believe.

Oh hey here's a full re-share of the video:
Basically Warlocks can:

A) Summon demons - seemingly more temporarily than a necromancer, some of it is more like Spiritborn "summons" which are basically just a glorified attack, but other stuff is actual summons.

B) Turn into a demon and be tough and fight in melee.

C) Put down sigils on the ground which explode and do stuff.

D) Go invisible and kill using lots of status effects.

Obviously all of this would be combined to some degree.

I theorize that one reason its taking so long is that they are waiting for BOTH the Paladin AND Warlock from the Lord of Hatred D4 expansion to release so that way they are choosable class options for this.

It's possible. I note they didn't even include Spiritborn in the original KS announcement though. So I'd be slightly surprised if they included all three expansion classes in the basic release. Maybe they'll make it part of the KS goals?

Another complicating factor of course is that this expansion also majorly reworks and adds to the abilities of existing classes.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I can't imagine they really intend to directly mirror a CRPG's rules -- those all tend to be far fiddlier than a human can handle at the table.

I think this is just generic RPG industry delays.

 

[Reynard]

I can't imagine they really intend to directly mirror a CRPG's rules -- those all tend to be far fiddlier than a human can handle at the table.

I think this is just generic RPG industry delays.

Also, for what it is likely to make moneywise, it just probably is not a real big priority for Blizzard (who even if not actually making the game probably has some pretty stringent review requirements).

On the upside, I get the impression that they want it pretty complete before funding, so if it ever does happen maybe there won't be a long wait for rewards.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

Hopefully news comes soon, I have been in a bit of a Diablo mood, and decided I was interested in this too.