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).

 

[JiffyPopTart]

What did everyone think of the phone call that you got shortly after watching the video?

I mean, Seven Days sounded super cryptic and I have no idea what that has to do with the overall survey experience.

Oh well....guess its nothing.

Could you PLEASE share the link with someone terminally ill so we do t have to go through another big "thing"?

#Easyloophole

 

[hopeless]

Seven Days was that the time travel sci fi series from a few years back where a test pilot travels a week into the past to attempt to stop some cataclysmic event using limited intel?
Edit: Oh yes it is!

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

It is not a surprise or a spoiler if somebody says WotC could be thinking about their own virtual tabletop software. My suggestion is some "DLC" could give as "gift" cosmetic elements for some online videogame: Fortnite, Roblox or Re-Core.

Other suggestion is an virtual tabletop to play "Hero-Quest", but I would add a "free-mode" where the AI can't controll nPCs but only showing reactions (you have activated a trap, or the chest is opened) and the movement of the nPCs. This is to allow playing with total freedom with your own house rules. Some DLCs for this virtual tabletop would be "crossovers", to promote franchises by other companies, for example videogame studios, or comic publishers.

I wonder about something like the NFC figures or the physical cards of Magic: the Gathering with codes to can play these in the online videogame.

I remember something about Hasbro's plans with NFT (Not Fungigle Tokens).

Hasbro Plans NFTs for Magic: The Gathering and More

Hasbro is working on a non-fungible token (NFT) technology, according to the company's quarterly earnings call.

cryptobriefing.com

Hasbro CEO says NFTs are being considered for Magic: The Gathering, other franchises

‘We have our arms around this and see multiple opportunities’

www.polygon.com

The NFT scourge could one day hit Magic: The Gathering

Hasbro discussed the possibility of implementing NFTs in Magic: The Gathering and other games during a recent earnings call.

www.dicebreaker.com

My advice is selling some physical product for collectors, for example miniatures or cards with a NFT.

 

[lkj]

It's interesting, the DDB folks have been hinting in their Dev Updates that they have big things in store they can't talk about yet. But it's obvious that it is with regard to a major upgrade in their 'virtual play space' sometime this year (DM tools etc.).

It's quite possible (even likely?) this is a separate thing entirely, since DDB obviously was poised to move in that direction already. So, whatever WotC is doing, DDB was going to be going there anyway. But who knows. Maybe they are related or it's a partnership.

I'll admit I'd be frustrated, given investment in DDB, for this to be an entirely separate and competing platform. I really hope it's some sort of partnership. But I have no idea.

And no, I haven't seen the video. Never got the option. So I'm guessing based on the hints in the thread.

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[Zaukrie]

As for content you pay for on a VTT (speaking about my experience with FG, Foundry, Roll20, and more).....I'd certainly buy pre-made adventures if there was a VTT I supported that sold them.....I would not pay for fancier "minis"...I won't be paying for ANOTHER VTT unless it is 2.5 or 3D and that fully supports not playing on the VTT (that is, I want what DNDBeyond does, plus a VTT). Otherwise, I'll just stick with my current VTTs and go back to pencil and paper (though that sounds painful, creating a PC from scratch and doing all the math).

 

[Nathaniel Lee]

It’s been revealed a dozen times in this thread .

Cool! I'll dig through a bit. I had just started at page 1 and saw a ton of pages at the bottom that scared me.

 

[Nathaniel Lee]

Ok so I more or less found what was announced, and now I'm just confused as to why I wouldn't have been shown that content, given I'm a forever DM. Did they remove that content from the survey when they removed the NDA...?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Ok so I more or less found what was announced, and now I'm just confused as to why I wouldn't have been shown that content, given I'm a forever DM. Did they remove that content from the survey when they removed the NDA...?

Their poll technology is janky as hell.

 

[Zaukrie]

Their poll technology is janky as hell.

Could be random....and all the other stuff is, heck, I got no idea.....the poll itself is very poorly constructed (I used to do surveys)....very.

 

[Al2O3]

To be fair, the last time around, WotC's digital offerings were stellar. For all the hoopla about Gleemax and whatnot, what you got for a very nominal subscription fee was freaking fantastic. Every single 4e official publication, in a searchable format for what, 6 bucks a month or something like that? Later on they did try a VTT which looked very promising.

I'm going to wait and see on this, but, if it's the same deal as 4e? I'll drop Fantasy Grounds like a bad habit in an instant.

Based on my experience with how WotC handled the 4e thing once 5e came I would be very cautious about getting another subscription for a WotC product. Maybe if it turned out very convenient and also allowed me to easily export a pdf or similar of my character. I currently have multiple 4e characters on my computer that I will never be able to view again...

Maybe I should also start looking into how I would do to export my Roll20 character sheets in case I had to find a new platform with just a couple of days available.