D&D 5E New WotC Survey! Learn About A New D&D Product!

WotC has launched a new survey about the future of D&D. This survey includes an NDA (which some people have not taken to well!) halfway through, which asks you not to talk about the survey on pain of being tracked down and fined, but it's about an upcoming (unannounced) new D&D product. You can find out what it is by taking the survey (or it's all over social media aready).

 

[overgeeked]

So they're floating a VTT and digital tools for the nth time? Color me unimpressed. I'm not about to give up $1,000 in content purchased and thousands of hours of homebrew creation between Roll20 and D&D Beyond.

If they pull the licenses, you won’t have a choice. If WotC does move into 1st party digital tools, the very first thing they will do is pull those licenses. This is why I’ve never done D&D Beyond. My investment vanishes the second WotC says so. Nope. Give me print or give me downloadable PDFs. I’m paying to own, not rent.

 

[Michael Linke]

I didn't see any NDA, or any questions that looked like anything crazy for the future. Maybe it's because I told them BECMI was the only edition i've played in the last 12 months?

 

[Yaarel]

I never even saw a question about digital products and got to see the super secret thing, but not answer any questions about it.

Maybe using certain website resources like Discord mattered in order to continue the survey?

 

[FitzTheRuke]

I got no NDA or anything else interesting. Funny thing asked me if I used the D&D Discord, and when I said "No." it asked me what I thought of the D&D Discord. THEN, when I answered "I don't know" to every one of their questions (having never seen the D&D Discord), it asked me how they could improve the D&D Discord (to which I answered, "I don't know... I just told you that I've never seen it. How could I tell you how to make it better?"

... They really suck at surveys.

 

[CM]

If they pull the licenses, you won’t have a choice. If WotC does move into 1st party digital tools, the very first thing they will do is pull those licenses. This is why I’ve never done D&D Beyond. My investment vanishes the second WotC says so. Nope. Give me print or give me downloadable PDFs. I’m paying to own, not rent.

Pulling a move like that would be PR suicide at this point, on the level of when TSR started C&Ding fansites that had nothing but homebrew.

 

[QuentinGeorge]

So those of us who didn’t do the survey and do the NDA yet know exactly what it was are cool to discuss it, right? Seems a bit weird.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Hey Whiz, you have a video slide and question after?

Man I wonder what I answered wrong to not get that…

 

[Zaukrie]

If they pull the licenses, you won’t have a choice. If WotC does move into 1st party digital tools, the very first thing they will do is pull those licenses. This is why I’ve never done D&D Beyond. My investment vanishes the second WotC says so. Nope. Give me print or give me downloadable PDFs. I’m paying to own, not rent.

Copy. Paste. In the meantime you have tools. That's what I do.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Especially if, despite what they say, they actually show the same "product" to everyone. The one I've seen might certainly make a certain business partner somewhat nervous.

If this is what it sounds like, and they screw over above reference partners, I will stop giving them any money. I know it won’t matter, but the only thing that actually matters in life, on any level, is how one treats other people. If they make a thing that directly competes with and invalidates a certain popular service, that’s it.

 

[Faolyn]

I don't think I got an NDA in mine. Just a bunch of questions that acted like it didn't believe I actually played D&D and was trying to test me.