February and Beyond

[Rechan]

Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Article (February and Beyond)

Not a lot piqued my interest. Some that did tho:

Next month in Dragon: Metallic Dragonborn, Assassin Hybrids.

Dungeon: Keep out on the Borderland, and Creature Incarnations: Fomorians!

Hammerfast sounds neat.

HS1: Raise your hand if you're surprised it's another "Slay some goblins and kobolds".

 

[fba827]

Hammerfast sounds neat

Agreed - it does sound neat. Though I'd have to know more about it before I'm completely sold on it... as we get closer to it, i'm sure we'll hear more.

HS1: Raise your hand if you're surprised it's another "Slay some goblins and kobolds".

True enough -- though, admittedly, if WotC is on this hope of bringing in new players, an intro/low level adventure will do better when it sticks to these easier concepts. They're probably not expecting many hardcore existing D&Der (like those of us on Enworld) to be eating that many low level published adventures. (of course, all this is just a guess on my part, I am no mind reader on marketing tactics).
If I did buy such a product, I'd probably stick an easy template (nothing more extravagant than an easy to remember bonus or resistance of some kind) on them with minor physical reskinning -- maybe they're all covered in boils and pox marks because they're actually touched by some far realms entity... thus, a lead in to something else ....

 

[Rechan]

True enough -- though, admittedly, if WotC is on this hope of bringing in new players, an intro/low level adventure will do better when it sticks to these easier concepts. They're probably not expecting many hardcore existing D&Der (like those of us on Enworld) to be eating that many low level published adventures. (of course, all this is just a guess on my part, I am no mind reader on marketing tactics).

On the contrary.

A recent ENWorld poll asked how frequently DMs here used adventures. The lion's share of the responders were either 10% or less, or 90% or more.

And I've read a lot of posts from people here who tried 4e by using KotS.

I think using some other low level monsters would be more appropriate. Fell Taints or maybe some lower level Kenku would really freshen things up.

 

[Jools]

Personally, I'm glad they're using monsters that people actually have the minis for. Unlike fell taints for instance.

 

[Klaus]

Metallic dragonborn, eh?

 

[Soel]

Regarding HS1, has there been any comment on why it was changed from its initial subject and premise of being the first of a series to focus on the Nentir Vale and the threat of the Iron Circle?