D&D 5E Next D&D Next Adventure Scourge of Sword Coast will be PDF Only

[Blackwarder]

You do realize this isn't the third and final adventure for the Sundering Trilogy right? It's an encounters adventure that is part of the Sundering storyline, but not an actual product that was ever meant to be sold on shelves. Much like Vault of the Dracolich.

No it isn't, all five of the sun seeing adventures were ment to be sold to the public.

Warder

 

[Pseudopsyche]

Both Murder in Baldur's Gate and Legacy of the Crystal Shard are nice products: good adventures with quality production values. It's a shame the next Sundering adventures won't be sold in stores.

Also, only supporting D&D Next won't be popular at my FLGS, where we only have 4e tables. I actually prefer Next, but I'd like everyone else to have the option to play with finished rules!

 

[darjr]

I wish they'd take a card out of Paizo's bag. Make a softcover Beta of the rules or 'playtest alpha' of the rules and sell that through the stores.

Sure, continue to sell the adventure as PDF at that point, but make it available to the folks running it in the stores, PDF would be fine.

I, for one, would consider running Encounters again.

 

[DMZ2112]

I guess that answers the question of how long Wizards' D&D coffers will hold out while they develop D&D5: not as long as they'd hoped.

I hope they've budgeted accordingly -- it would be kind of terrible if D&D5 was released at GenCon 2014 on a branded flash drive.

Groundbreaking, mind you, but terrible.

 

[Sonny]

No it isn't, all five of the sun seeing adventures were ment to be sold to the public.

Warder

Actually I was wrong about 3 to be sold in stores. They never said they would publish 3 of the five, only 2 of them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=r2LE5w4ZO_k#t=2966

Unless you can point to where they stated all five would be on the shelf products. This is just a encounters sundering adventure. I doubt the other 2 will be in stores either.

 

[Scorpio616]

In other words, screw the FLGSs who now have no incentive whatsoever to host D&D Encounters because they cannot sell the adventure, they cannot sell the rules and they have no other D&D product for sale either.

Well said!

 

[Scorpio616]

I hope they've budgeted accordingly -- it would be kind of terrible if D&D5 was released at GenCon 2014 on a branded flash drive.

Groundbreaking, mind you, but terrible.

Only kind of groundbreaking that would be is wotc digging 5E's grave.

 

[MerricB]

No it isn't, all five of the sundering adventures were meant to be sold to the public.

To be fair, this is still being sold to the public.

I've calmed down a lot since I first heard of this; I'll reserve judgement until I know the price.

The price of the previous two was a little higher than I would have liked, and was a problem for some DMs. If this is a reasonable price point (about $10-$15, depending on content), it will be doable.

Cheers!

 

[Scrivener of Doom]

I guess that answers the question of how long Wizards' D&D coffers will hold out while they develop D&D5: not as long as they'd hoped. (snip)

I think the D&D team is being given a long, last throw of the dice. The business rules have been suspended - like, oh, actually having products to sell - while Hasbro/WotC sees if they can make D&D into something other than a niche hobby.

But someone has stuck his or her neck out quite a way on this gamble. If this doesn't work, don't be surprised if D&D is mothballed.

 

[DMZ2112]

I think the D&D team is being given a long, last throw of the dice. The business rules have been suspended - like, oh, actually having products to sell - while Hasbro/WotC sees if they can make D&D into something other than a niche hobby.

But someone has stuck his or her neck out quite a way on this gamble. If this doesn't work, don't be surprised if D&D is mothballed.

I agree with your assessment.

I'm choosing to believe, however, that this same attention is why D&D KRE-Os are coming out next month, and that if the tabletop game is shelved, the brand, at least, will continue in some form.

I could live with that.