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Parmandur
Book-Friend
Demetrios1453
Hero
I'm wondering that since the edition has been successful that they'll go up to two accessory books a year instead of just one, and this will be the lead up for that. Having 2 adventure books and 2 rules accessory books a year, one for each quarter, would help quell the complaints towards the slow release schedule. It would be nice to see the "Psionics plus other stuff" book in the spring instead of the autumn of 2017. It would be odd to do a lot of UAs and then wait a whole year to release what is in them officially, after all...
Parmandur
Book-Friend
Not if they want to get detailed feedback from the fanbase, go back to design, then private playtest, then finalize a product; if they have a lot of material they want to vet carefully, testing now for a release about this time next year seems right.
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Mistwell
Crusty Old Meatwad (he/him)
flametitan
Explorer
If it's anything like last year's, I doubt we'll hear anything substantial, but we'll get some vague implications about the upcoming products, and we'll perform rampant speculation as to what it could possibly mean.
Parmandur
Book-Friend
I was just looking that over earlier; Perkins did go a lot more into Curse of Strahd and Sky Kings Thunder than was apparent at the time. It also seems they talked about this nee mini-playtest somewhat...
flametitan
Explorer
Like I said, he'll create some vague hooks for us to grab on. Sometimes these allusions may not be apparent at first (such as an off hand remark that Cryptic Studios doesn't like it when they have to represent giants in their games), other times they'll be readily apparent, but misdirecting. The fact we knew cloak was Ravenloft was an exception; look at how many people thought we were getting an Eberron from Dagger before SKT came out.
At least he was blunt about how they were beginning to tie everything together more closely (With the obvious one being SKT is directly related to ToD while less obviously it seems like Volo refers to it in the quote on the Aasimar write-up.)
Parmandur
Book-Friend
flametitan
Explorer
I agree. Perhaps he'll shed some more insight to the canonical timeline of the Realms, and how AL fits into that. Perhaps he'll give some insight as to why we're all of a sudden having references to Greyhawk in the last few books. It seems the things we get the most straightforward answers to are on the books already published. Who knows, maybe he'll talk about what they planned to do with Sword Coast Legends if it didn't implode on itself.
But most of all, we might get some words that will lead to rampant fandom speculation, and it will be hilarious to get that, and then when the actual stuff comes out, look back to see how completely and utterly (not to mention obviously, once we see what hints we missed) wrong we were.
Parmandur
Book-Friend
flametitan
Explorer
Actually, now that I mentioned it, I'm curious what they were going to do with SCL if it was successful. I mean, it seems like they wanted it to be important, one of the tag-along NPCs appeared on the cover of the SCAG, and its BBEG is listed as a possible fiendlock patron. The obvious answer is "expansion packs", that would follow along the storyline of the hardcovers, but would they have done more to incorporate it into their core?
The Neverwinter MMO is part of their multi-media franchise, but as far as I can tell its presence in the 5e family has never been as heavily sponsored as SCL was. I don't recall seeing any statblocks of major NPCs being made for it, I've never seen a book that explicitly stated it expanded upon or was expanded by the Neverwinter MMO (though maybe the Neverwinter campaign guide in 4e did). The most I've seen of tie-ins was that it appears in Dragon+, it gets a mention for storyline stuff (Oh Cryptic is doing this for the Neverwinter MMO!), and I got an item coupon when I bought the Elemental Evil board game. I don't seem to recall there being anything else, aside from maybe item coupons in other D&D non book items? Whereas I have seen all of the above (except for item coupons) for Sword Coast Legends, which maybe implies that wotc had bigger goals for it than they did Neverwinter.
The Neverwinter MMO is part of their multi-media franchise, but as far as I can tell its presence in the 5e family has never been as heavily sponsored as SCL was. I don't recall seeing any statblocks of major NPCs being made for it, I've never seen a book that explicitly stated it expanded upon or was expanded by the Neverwinter MMO (though maybe the Neverwinter campaign guide in 4e did). The most I've seen of tie-ins was that it appears in Dragon+, it gets a mention for storyline stuff (Oh Cryptic is doing this for the Neverwinter MMO!), and I got an item coupon when I bought the Elemental Evil board game. I don't seem to recall there being anything else, aside from maybe item coupons in other D&D non book items? Whereas I have seen all of the above (except for item coupons) for Sword Coast Legends, which maybe implies that wotc had bigger goals for it than they did Neverwinter.
Chaosmancer
Legend
I am on one hand super excited for more UA's (and I'd just heard about this today and was hoping the story was being talked about here)
On the other hand, it could end up being a lot of content to sift through and talk about, that won't get used at my table for some time.
Still, I love getting new free stuff.
On the other hand, it could end up being a lot of content to sift through and talk about, that won't get used at my table for some time.
Still, I love getting new free stuff.
That's what they get for limiting themselves to smaller cons, I guess. (Though there are a few threads now.)
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