Pages From The Upcoming Nautical D&D Book!

These screencaps were posted by GM Leigh (of Mage Productions) on Twitter after being showed on WotC's Twitch stream, presented by Kate Welch and Nathan Stewart. Note the old Saltmarsh trilogy references!

 

[Parmandur]

Probably the new artificer will be previewed in it as well.

Maybe: he said it in a very cagey "don't revealed the secret" way.

 

[Psikerlord#]

Having 20+ enemies in an area indicates this is some bad encounter design.

Only if you're playing 5e

 

[vecna00]

So, Bart Carroll said on the Dragon+ show that the next issue of Dragon+ is coming early next week to coincide with...other things...might see an announcement soon.

Haven't had a listen yet, but in the Dragon Talk podcast today Chris Perkins discusses the history of TSR UK: maybe we'll get some of the other UK modules, too.

I haven't listened to Dragon Talk yet, but I did give Crawford's update on the UAs going forward in the Artificer thread. I'm thinking one of two things will happen next week: Either Morgrave's Miscellany will drop along with the Artificer, or we'll get the full announcement of the Nautical book with an article in Dragon+ about it.

Or maybe both? Both is always good!

 

[Parmandur]

I haven't listened to Dragon Talk yet, but I did give Crawford's update on the UAs going forward in the Artificer thread. I'm thinking one of two things will happen next week: Either Morgrave's Miscellany will drop along with the Artificer, or we'll get the full announcement of the Nautical book with an article in Dragon+ about it.

Or maybe both? Both is always good!

Exciting times. I think coordinating a press release about the new book with a big spread in Dragon+ would make solid sense.

 

[vecna00]

Exciting times. I think coordinating a press release about the new book with a big spread in Dragon+ would make solid sense.

Indeed, would explain why they didn't want Kate and Nate fully spilling the beans during the firesides two months in a row.

 

[Parmandur]

Listened to Perkins talk about TSR UK:

Went through the basic history of TSR & Games Workshop, formation of TSR UK, writing of MM II and Fiend Folio in 1E. Went over the adventures made by TSR UK, what made them innovative in regards narrative and political shenanigans. Influence on later adventure design. Nothing regulatory as to the product, at least not obviously so...

 

[guachi]

I would love to see Nights Dark Terror updated/modernized/converted. That was a great UK module.

Hands down my favorite module. I'm kicking myself for not getting it when it was new.

It would be a great module to use if WOTC ever wanted to make a 1-5 level adventure and set it in Karameikos.

Sure, you could (and WOTC probably would) set it in FR but it would lose something.

 

[Jay Verkuilen]

I don't know how many constitute many. I do try to avoid making broader statements without evidence.

And, I'd point to the fact that even "thin" supplements like SCAG are still selling far, far more than any single title of the same age for any other edition, outside of core books. Seems like they are doing something right.

So the only metric is success in the marketplace?

 

[Staffan]

It also seemed D&D and Hasbro had no faith in 5e, since they outsourced the adventures to other studios (Tyranny of Dragons was Kobold Press, PotA was Sasquatch Game Studios, OotA was Green Ronin). It took them until Curse of Strahd to finally do an adventure in house, and that was March 2016.

It probably had more to do with concurrent development. The in-house team was busy working on the actual rule books up until very close to their release (I think the DMG had some last-minute changes in response to feedback on the Monster Manual), so they hired others to do the first few adventures.

I know I've seen an interview with one of the Hoard of the Dragon Queen designers apologizing for that first encounter with 8 kobolds, because Pack Attack was added to them later in the process and that made the encounter ridiculously lethal.

 

[Hussar]

So the only metric is success in the marketplace?

For determining the right course of action for a company?

Yup.