New D&D Adventure

[Scott]

WOtC announces their next adventure book today. Acererak is the BBG, but it's obviously set in the FOrgotten Realms.

[GRWelsh]

Ugh. Recycled Greyhawk themes set in FR continue. Where is the originality with the 5e team?

[geneweigel]

I just watched what I though was a preview and it turned out to be a live game session. Scared... can't talk.

There was a link at the bottom where they were discussing but the guy was chattering so much I just got sick of the whole Whatzee-verse. It like I need to get out my old radiation badge every time that I watch that shit! There is some kind of flag of the Great Green Devil trap on the main page but I didn't see anything about Acererak.

[Scott]

I haven't had the chance to really check it out yet:
www.google.com/amp/s/venturebeat.com/2017/06/02/neverwinters-tomb-of-annihilation-mixes-dd-dinosaurs-and-undead-on-july-25-for-pcs/amp/

[foster1941]

I don't really get how D&D adventures work nowadays. They release one or two adventures a year, and theme everything for that year around them - release minis that tie-in and a boardgame that ties in and video game content that ties in and the episodes of the in-store demo things tie in and they tell/encourage all the twitch/YouTube/podcast people to play it - and then when the next one comes out they do it all over again? So in 2014 it was "Rise of Tiamat," in 2015 it was "Elemental Evil" and "Out of the Abyss," in 2016 it was "Curse of Strahd" and "Storm God's Thunder," and in 2017 it's going to be "Tomb of Annihilation"? I mean, I guess from a branding perspective that makes sense, but it hardly seems like the D&D I grew up with.

[geneweigel]

Jun 2, 2017 16:50:20 GMT -5 Scott said:

I haven't had the chance to really check it out yet:
www.google.com/amp/s/venturebeat.com/2017/06/02/neverwinters-tomb-of-annihilation-mixes-dd-dinosaurs-and-undead-on-july-25-for-pcs/amp/

This FORGOTTEN REALMS premise is so hard for me to follow with S1.

I followed the game developer and I started to download then watched some gameplay samples on YouTube while it downloaded. Terrible.

This whole continuing D&D franchise is like an analogy of a jigsaw puzzle which at first appears to at least have the same shaped pattern even though the "photo" doesn't match up then you find out those that did the puzzle "successfully" did not put it together but just laid it out in a colorful starburst pattern.

[Scott]

It's like Tomb of Horrors and Isle of Dread had a baby. I'll probably end up buying it, and immediately converting it to Greyhawk.