I’ve been following WoTC strategy for DnD from a business perspective since they announced OneDnD around 2022 (force of habit, we all have our flaws…)

The path has been awesome with lots of Ups and Downs… too many downs so far for the CFO and the staff who use to work there but, after the Gen Con 2026, the critical milestone of a very much needed excellent 2027 got his roadmap.

This should be the confirmation of Dan Ayoub’s vision for the future of the company (hope it works and reconcile the fans/customers) or the final nail in the coffin for the bumpy ride is being the edition of OneDnD… oh sorry, I mean DnD 2024… oh no, DnD 5.5… is it still 5.5? Yes, that edition!

The break in the community due to mechanics many never cure, but there is hope for heal trust and passion for the product (lore, settings and adventures can be used by every table whatever is the edition they love)

2027 will bring to DnD (again) Warcraft, Dark Sun, Star Wars, high quality third parties on board, and Greyhawk with the very first original and complete campaign book for the edition that should became a flagship.

I think this Gen Con has provoked some hope in both extremes of the customer spectrum: cheerleaders and haters of 5.5. I think this subreddit is a good sample were both meet so I propose a poll to measure how you receive this roadmap and would like to repeat it a year after to evaluate if WoTC really delivered on their goals:

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The route of digitalization, including AI DM´s or tools for players was expected.

I am just curious about what this community (that seems mostly against AI) think about that... because you are the target market.

EDIT: I have put the link in the answers (just in case is agains any rule, mod can delete just that)

The role says:

About the job

At Wizards AI in Central Technology, we build high-value, scalable solutions that enable our game teams to build better development tools and new experiences. AI is a new frontier of development, and we are passionate about using responsible AI to provide useful tools and processes for our partners while ensuring human creativity is protected. We are looking for a versatile and dedicated Senior AI Developer who focuses on delivering end to end agentic architectures and trained models for our game partners to use as tools and customer facing features. In this role, you will be working with a team to develop solutions in a collaborative and creative environment with partner teams and helping to grow our capabilities in AI technologies.

What You'll Do:

• Work with internal teams to implement AI technologies in our tools and products
• Develop AI techniques to create best in class solutions for our partners
• Advocate for responsible and ethical AI, working closely with teams to build positive and safe systems for usage across our products.
• Design, build, and deploy scalable systems for intelligent generation of player assistance, tutorials, and NPC behaviors.

I just recived the book "A life well lived" by cubicle 7. It is not as useful, big and important than Uncharted Journeys from same team, but I decided to get it as a gift for my wife. A nice complement for 5E to dig into those details they love about the PC, and can be shared with the kids.

It just surprise me with the work on the hardcover format and how beautiful the book is, outside (much better in real life than in photo) and inside. Great decision for a present.

So I take advantage of this post to recommend it to those who decide to stick on original 5E (it´s not so compatible with 2024 unfortunatelly) and ask if there are some other nice third party books that you would recommend with similar characteristics: narrative supplement, PC development, downtime activities...

Something for the PC to have fun without so focus on combat issues. And if the book is beautiful to justify the physical copy the better.

Thanks

Me parece interesante este setting pensado para jugar en niveles bajos y con algo de humor, con una ambientación europea, tirando a quijotesca.

Me gusta además la similitud con la cultura propia hispana, aunque no sé si tiene demasiado peso la tradición italiana más tradicional, hasta el punto de disociarlo completamente y perderse un poco en la mística menos conocida fuera de sus fronteras.

¿Qué os ha parecido a los hispanos que lo habéis jugado? Sé que juega con variedad de reinos para crear distintas temáticas pero no sé si al final, el estilo peculiar o las mecánicas, hace que uno se canse pronto de él o verdaderamente dá juego para varias campañas.

En Kickstarter están ya trabajando en 3 nuevos libros de expansión.

Hi,

After some years playing simple TTRPGs with my kids, I am already planning the upgrade to the friendly 5E. I expect it to be a kind of "forever edition" in our house as it is being 2e or 3.5 for many of you.

I choose 5E because it is a succesfull and well known game, with easy learning curve, rich amount of third party resources and, because the original system provides enough options to make it your taste.

They will also recognize it in the future while being far from the nest but playing a classic game known as BG3. 😉 (those who still play BG1 know the feeling).

I need the help of those DMs who were running 5E for so many years to predict how is going to be our next decade. I look at my library and a few key questions come to my mind:

• Which official books are you still using?
• Which official books never touched or stays in library with a tonne of dust?
• Which adventures or settings were really recurrent during all those years
• Which 3rd party books were critical for you in order to improve or expand the system?
• What are you planning regarding the future: stay on 5E and your homebrew version keeping an eye on those 3rd parties who still work on it, move into 5.5 or just parked aside while a break with a new fresh systems that fits better your table?

I am excluding the No-DMs just because the point of view for the answers would be in a different plane of existency. And, between the DMs, I really want to hear those who have drained 5E for long time and have struggled to keep it fun and alive on the table.

Thanks!

Edit: Please, check the tag, I just want to get the most from the last 12 years of 5E. This post is not intended to justify why I do not forget about 5E 2014 to start collecting 5.5 and wait for the promising next 10 years of great releases. I´ll deal with that once I already enjoyed the original as you did.