D&D 5E It seems no D&D book for Spring/Q2 this year

[Henadic Theologian]

Or at least nothing announced yet. Could it be because 1D&D is taken up too many resources or could something secret poduct stll be coming for Spring?

Guesses?

 

[bedir than]

Did they move the release of Bigby's back?

 

[Veltharis ap Rylix]

Did they move the release of Bigby's back?

Seems like it. Don't have exact release dates, but Bigby and Phandelver for Q3, then Planescape and Deck/Book of Many Things in Q4.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

I think they've pushed them back to give them time to rebuild some goodwill after the OGL fiasco.

While there's no way to be sure on the correlation, Keys from the Golden Vault seems to have been negatively affected by the bruhaha (sales wise). I mean, it's doing fine, but its definitely slow for a 5e book. Of course, there's a thing I call "late edition slump" as well - once a new "edition" is announced (OneD&D might not wind up feeling like a new edition, but the market can't be sure of that yet) then the last few books of an old edition usually hit the market like lead. Only later does their individual quality make a difference in how they're regarded. (Sometimes making them rare!)

 

[gamerprinter]

Maybe that's a good sign for any 3PP that releases a book this quarter...

 

[Zaukrie]

I think they've pushed them back to give them time to rebuild some goodwill after the OGL fiasco.

While there's no way to be sure on the correlation, Keys from the Golden Vault seems to have been negatively affected by the bruhaha (sales wise). I mean, it's doing fine, but its definitely slow for a 5e book. Of course, there's a thing I call "late edition slump" as well - once a new "edition" is announced (OneD&D might not wind up feeling like a new edition, but the market can't be sure of that yet) then the last few books of an old edition usually hit the market like lead. Only later does their individual quality make a difference in how they're regarded. (Sometimes making them rare!)

Keys is so good. People are missing out.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Keys is so good. People are missing out.

Agreed. I'm not worried about selling the ones I have in stock - just a LOT slower than nearly all the previous books (though they've been slowing down for the past year or two anyhow, even when they're good, like this one.)