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).

 

[Mercurius]

The NDA really doesn't make sense, unless its just crossing their Ts and dotting their Is. But it ends up feeling like they are crossing their Is and dotting their Ts, especially considering the nature of the product and the fact that A) some people couldn't even hear it (pre-product technical difficulties!) and B) I, at least, didn't even get to comment on it in any way. So I received an NDA to watch a two-minute video to which I could give no feedback.

 

[TwoSix]

Two things from this survey.

1) They don't think anyone has played 4E any time in the last year. (It's the only edition they didn't ask about in this regard)

Did YOU click 4e? Because I was able to click every edition I had picked in the question before (for me, 2E, 3E, 4E, and 5E).

 

[TwoSix]

I answered a bunch of racial questions. I had to put N/A/don't know on the gnome stuff because I have barely looked at gnomes and nobody I know uses one.

Then we got to the secret squirrel part, I watched the very slowly narrated video, said I could understand it, and then got booted out with no questions about it. The one I got made it look like the guys at DND Beyond aren't going to be happy unless they are getting acquired.
I wish I had the chance to tell them "No, I'm not interested."

This mirrors my experience.

 

[Parmandur]

I’m usually a WotC fan but this was dumb

Same.

 

[Crimson Longinus]

BTW (and I can talk about this, since it's pre-NDA), the survey questions, themselves, seem problematic, since there are never any "whys?" or comment spaces. I'm sure some of my ratings don't come off quite right, since I couldn't explain them. Seemed kind of useless, gathering-info-wise.

Yeah definitely. How do they know if I am dissatisfied with the elven darkvision because I want it gone or because I want them to have more powerful special vision or because I am dissatisfied how darkvision rules work in general?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Oh, yeah: I'm a bit of a luddite, but I would find some use for this "potential" product, but it didn't excite me like, say, an announcement of The Gith War story arc would.

Man, that would be a great annual adventure hardcover, with a Sigil gazetteer to set up a home base for the adventurers.

Make it so, WotC.

 

[Umbran]

Huh. I got to see a super-secret thing, and answer a whole bunch of questions about it.

 

[darjr]

Same.

Note I mean not being able to talk about it.

 

[Wolfram stout]

I am 53, saw the secret video and was able to answer the questions about what I thought of it afterwards.

 

[Benjamin Olson]

Oh, yeah: I'm a bit of a luddite, but I would find some use for this "potential" product, but it didn't excite me like, say, an announcement of The Gith War story arc would.

I do wish they hadn't kept asking me if the prospective product "excited" me. It simply isn't involved in aspects of the game I get "excited" about.