D&D (2024) What will D&D 6th edition be like?

[Zardnaar]

At this point a very lucrative side project...

Not as lucretive as you think.

The entire RPG market isn't that big, D&D is most of it but the only get a fraction of the revenue. I doubt they get much more than 10 million or so. Which is pocket change for Hasbro.

If they can get a hit movie or game that's a bit different. We won't be getting a movie anytime soon even if it's announced tomorrow you would be looking at 2022.

The games side also has issues. They don't have ave a decent studio to make a game or the money so you're gonna get shovel ware for the most part. Game development is stupidly expensive a "cheap" one is Witcher 3 which was made in Poland. That game cist more than the entire RPG market in one year.

You also need passion or vision to make a good game or experience to refine what works.

 

[MoonSong]

Not as lucretive as you think.

The entire RPG market isn't that big, D&D is most of it but the only get a fraction of the revenue. I doubt they get much more than 10 million or so. Which is pocket change for Hasbro.

If they can get a hit movie or game that's a bit different. We won't be getting a movie anytime soon even if it's announced tomorrow you would be looking at 2022.

The games side also has issues. They don't have ave a decent studio to make a game or the money so you're gonna get shovel ware for the most part. Game development is stupidly expensive a "cheap" one is Witcher 3 which was made in Poland. That game cist more than the entire RPG market in one year.

You also need passion or vision to make a good game or experience to refine what works.

It's still the most lucrative it's been in decades if not ever. (Those early years are fuzzy, high school dropouts do not good beancounters make ^.^.) Minimal investment and great sales coupled with licensing.

 

[Zardnaar]

It's still the most lucrative it's been in decades if not ever. (Those early years are fuzzy, high school dropouts do not good beancounters make ^.^.) Minimal investment and great sales coupled with licensing.

True WotC is a lot better run than TSR.

 

[MoonSong]

True WotC is a lot better run than TSR.

I still wonder what would have happened if don Kaye had lived.

 

[Rafael Martin]

You had a question and I gave you the best advice to get the answer to that question.

The topic has been played out so people aren't going to respond as earnestly.

If you actually want answers to your question then yes, do a search.

If you're just trolling then carry on I guess.

I want the truth!!!

 

[ad_hoc]

I want the truth!!!

Spoiler

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

Hasbro notices D&D is, or it could become, a true cash-cow, but as multimedia franchise. D&D can't be Game of Thrones because the key by this is teaching us, opening our eyes, about the fights for the power and how they rule us. The most of speculative fiction only wants to entertain us and give some propaganda message by the author but not really help us to become wiser.

 

[zedturtle]

Hasbro has likely preemptively closed that door.

The OGL and SRD 5.1 exists. That barn door cannot be closed (the OGL is irrevocable). Sure, there are limitations, just like what Paizo had to handle with 3.5. But they fairly easily got around them and someone else could as well.

Any move by WotC has to take into consideration the fact that the market could choose not to follow. That's why I agree that it's going to be slow and gradual (at least until 2024) and even then I think it will be incremental or possibly thematic changes. I would love 5e to be evergreen and I think it has the chops to do it.

 

[slobster]

Not as lucretive as you think.

The entire RPG market isn't that big, D&D is most of it but the only get a fraction of the revenue. I doubt they get much more than 10 million or so. Which is pocket change for Hasbro.

If they can get a hit movie or game that's a bit different. We won't be getting a movie anytime soon even if it's announced tomorrow you would be looking at 2022.

The games side also has issues. They don't have ave a decent studio to make a game or the money so you're gonna get shovel ware for the most part. Game development is stupidly expensive a "cheap" one is Witcher 3 which was made in Poland. That game cist more than the entire RPG market in one year.

You also need passion or vision to make a good game or experience to refine what works.

I liken it to comic books and their associated spinoff media projects. Sure, comics themselves are borderline profitable, if at all. But the goal with comics is basically to establish an IP that can then be turned into a movie, or Netflix show, or video game, preferably all of the above plus action figures. (Obviously that's the profit goal; the goal for most comics creators is to tell a good story)

I think Hasbro is angling for long-term D&D ambitions. I would expect them to start pushing "iconic" characters more, either big-name NPCs or cross-marketing adventure paths with video game releases and the like by pushing mascot characters or mascot monsters. Something that is more marketable, as a toy, action figure, further stories, etc. than just characters made by individual groups and players.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Here are some threads discussing 6th edition:

OneDnD - D&D 6th edition - What do you want to see?

I imagine it is still 5 years off, give or take, but WotC is probably doing the groundwork now, and considering how they might want to change their flagship game. I do like 5e, but I want some more granularity in the rules, and I want them really listen to the community. 1. Better book...

www.enworld.org

OneDnD - Is 5th edition too big for there to be a 6th edition?

We seem to be in uncharted territory due to the popularity of the current version of D&D. It isn't so much that 5E is popular, but that D&D is, in the form of 5e. This is not to downplay the importance of the edition itself in the game's current popularity, but to point out that for the new...

www.enworld.org

What should we do with the Seventh Edition?

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OneDnD - Pick one major theme from a previous edition that you want in 6e

Thought exercise. Let's say 6e comes out at some point, and like 5e, part of the design scope is to pull things in from each edition prior. You get to choose one major theme (a mechanic, a philosophy, etc) from each edition to go into 6e. What it is? For me: b/x: a basic version like the...

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