Help me get WOTC to release Siege of Gardmore Abbey Publicly

[NewJeffCT]

My FLGS had it on the shelves Saturday 9/10. So I picked it up. Really cool so far.

if it is at your FLGS, why do we need to get it released? Isn't it already released?

 

[Traveon Wyvernspur]

I sent mine to dndinsider @Wizard s.com but I have no idea if that's the right place.

Yeah I went to http://wizards.custhelp.com/app/ask and posted an email to them there under D&D and D&D RPG. Hopefully they compile all the requests under that.

 

[Neverfate]

I do *not*, do NOT understand WoTC's refusal to release special event adventures, free RPG day, and their Encounters/Lairs packets to the general public, even in PDF form. Their just seeming lack of caring boggles my mind. Maybe its out of some misguided belief that if people knew the content would be available they wouldn't attend the events? I don't know. It doesn't make sense to me. Almost all of Paizo's organized play and free RPG stuff is available on their site. Doesn't seem to be impacted them one bit.

I guess they want something that's one-time-only to draw people in to conventions (or to the in store program). That's just what I assume. Also, I'm not entirely knowledgeable on this kind of thing, but I know with something like Living Forgotten Realms, they had to jump through hoops to host the adventures when they were no longer being distributed via Wizards Play Network, so there could be some legal angle too.

 

[SSquirrel]

It makes perfect sense that they have one-off things to pull people in, but considering how often you hear people gripe that WotC doesn't make good adventures, you would think that 6 months or a year after the one-off event they could make it available to at least DDI subscribers. Straight up free download on the site would be great, but free to DDI subs would be the more likely route.

 

[Zuche]

After earning a copy of an adventure by running a table for twelve to twenty weeks, I'm not terribly inclined to see DDI subscribers get it for free.

 

[Sigdel]

[MENTION=19261]Sigdel[/MENTION] , I think you are confused.

This thread is about the PAX convention adventure titled "Siege of Gardmore Abbey". I think you are referring to the Adventure Site product released this week (and next) titled "Madness at Gardmore Abbey".

Hmm. You are correct. My mistake.

 

[Gargoyle]

After earning a copy of an adventure by running a table for twelve to twenty weeks, I'm not terribly inclined to see DDI subscribers get it for free.

On one hand I can understand the annoyance when exclusive content is no longer exclusive. You feel like you've been cheated of your reward.

On the other hand, you did get to run the content before anyone else, and you did get a printed copy. So if it appeared in DDI, which isn't free, then how would this really hurt you or mitigate the reward for your hard "work"?

 

[Jefe Bergenstein]

After earning a copy of an adventure by running a table for twelve to twenty weeks, I'm not terribly inclined to see DDI subscribers get it for free.

You're right. Its much better people just illegally download it.

Though technically, DDI subscribers wouldnt get it for free. It would be in the paid subscription. And it would be pdf, instead of print. Such PDF's would be a nice bonus, considering that the subscription price currently amounts to little more than the compendium and a character builder not really better than the modified old offline version. On the upside, I hear the virtual tabletop is approaching where (free) maptools was several years ago, so that's something!

I'm not sure why WOTC puts so mucn effort into something so few can (legally) obtain. Like the recent Lost Shrine of Tamoachan. They even rubbed it in by featuring a couple of articles on it. "Here's a cool adventure you can't have, even with a subscription. And now on to this week's Dungeon Delve style slog!"

 

[Traveon Wyvernspur]

You're right. Its much better people just illegally download it.

Though technically, DDI subscribers wouldnt get it for free. It would be in the paid subscription. And it would be pdf, instead of print. Such PDF's would be a nice bonus, considering that the subscription price currently amounts to little more than the compendium and a character builder not really better than the modified old offline version. On the upside, I hear the virtual tabletop is approaching where (free) maptools was several years ago, so that's something!

I'm not sure why WOTC puts so mucn effort into something so few can (legally) obtain. Like the recent Lost Shrine of Tamoachan. They even rubbed it in by featuring a couple of articles on it. "Here's a cool adventure you can't have, even with a subscription. And now on to this week's Dungeon Delve style slog!"

I wholeheartedly agree with you here. I don't mean to demean anyone's hard work earning cool things like free adventures/books/goodies, but if WOTC would delay it a bit and then put things like this out to DDI subscribers in a PDF version, that'd really draw in a lot more people. We subscribers are paying a lot of money for the little bit of content/tools they do have. I don't have to subscribe to use the character builder since I have the old downloaded version on my laptop and am just fine with making characters from there or using the books. The virtual table is still in beta testing, the articles have somewhat gone down in quality, and the monster builder you can't export from. I feel they should throw us a bone every once in a while for some good stuff that we feel make it worth supporting the company for and continue to play their games new games and put out good word of mouth to other gamers and prospective gamers.

Just my 2cp,
Trav

 

[Dice4Hire]

I can understand the people who do not want to see the adventure widely available after they worked hard to get it.

Of course there are the people selling it on Ebay, too.

I think exclusive content is a good idea for a game, and having rare items helps it collector's value as well as making interesting products.

Putting everything out in pdf is just so easy. Too easy.