D&D 5E Gencon release?

[Kramodlog]

Sorry, I wasn't clear in what I actually meant here. My point is that a Campaign Setting book of some kind might not be tied to Raging Rise of the Giant Dragon Overlord Demons of Evil or whatever, but that doesn't mean that a Campaign Setting (or whatever product is deem appropriate for a book) could be released as a non-story product.

A Sword Cost gazetter would be more than welcomed. But if Out of the Abyss is done enough that they feel confortable to announce it, so would this gazetter that would come out earlier. There is no point in keeping it a secret.

 

[Kramodlog]

They've said repeatedly that it is not, and backed it up in the products, including APs. The default setting is Planescape linked Prime Materia. Forgotten Realms is the marketable property...so far.

Factully Perkins is right, they never said the FR are the default setting. But Stewart said APs will happen exclusively in the FR for quite some time. It is the de facto default setting. When it walks like a duck, quack likes a duck, boom it is a duck. We aren't idiots. Having 8 pages on how to set the AP in another settings won't make the AP less set in the FR.

Perkins is trying to "win" communications and that is just insulting. Mearls with his "we never said that" and "you can't cancel what hasn't been announced " is doing the same thing.

 

[Umbran]

We aren't idiots.

We are, however, curmudgeonly.

 

[Parmandur]

Factully Perkins is right, they never said the FR are the default setting. But Stewart said APs will happen exclusively in the FR for quite some time. It is the de facto default setting. When it walks like a duck, quack likes a duck, boom it is a duck. We aren't idiots. Having 8 pages on how to set the AP in another settings won't make the AP less set in the FR.



Perkins is trying to "win" communications and that is just insulting. Mearls with his "we never said that" and "you can't cancel what hasn't been announced " is doing the same thing.

He said they would be the focus for a while; but the Core Books are setting neutral, and other settings remain supported. To call FR the default is not true.

 

[Parmandur]

We are, however, curmudgeonly.

That is most likely a large part of the reason they don't say much.

 

[Beleriphon]

A Sword Cost gazetter would be more than welcomed. But if Out of the Abyss is done enough that they feel confortable to announce it, so would this gazetter that would come out earlier. There is no point in keeping it a secret.

Don't know the answer to that puzzle. Your guess is as good as mine. I figure if there is something to announce they aren't annoucing something on the off case the printing get mangled, or other events prevent an on time release.

 

[Jester David]

True, but we do know about Rage of Demons, coming in the Fall - after Gen Con.

I imagine we learned of that earlier because it ties into Sword Coast Legends, and that game wanted to start building to its release sooner.

Out of the Abyss is out for September 15th. Which means September 1st for premium stores. Which is close enough to GenCon to have pre-release copies there (even if just as a reward for participating DMs). That'll also be when the next Adventurer's League season starts

 

[Staffan]

One possibility is that they were originally planning Rage of Demons for a GenCon release, but the general delays in getting the core books out (the DMG was a month or two late) plus the whole jury duty thing made them move the date back a bit. Since it wasn't announced until recently, that delay would be invisible to the customer, but would still leave a GenCon-shaped hole in the schedule.

 

[Umbran]

That is most likely a large part of the reason they don't say much.

Yeah. If our grouching about what they say is seen to be a net negative, then it is better not to say anything.

It is then important to consider that maybe there isn't a whole lot of positive in announcing products these days, such that making it a net negative may be pretty easy. If sales are running well without announcements, why announce?

 

[Parmandur]

Yeah. If our grouching about what they say is seen to be a net negative, then it is better not to say anything.



It is then important to consider that maybe there isn't a whole lot of positive in announcing products these days, such that making it a net negative may be pretty easy. If sales are running well without announcements, why announce?

Seriously; look at Dragon+. The release a new iteration of their house magazine without having said a word before it came to the App store; previously when they said they had plans for Dragon, this was seen as dodging. Bit they had a plan. They just just didn't choose to tell the world until it was ready.