Meech17
Adventurer
They mentioned during the PHB video that made the rounds this week that they'll be doing more and longer videos soon. So perhaps we'll see some stuff from that channel.
D&D (2024) Where are the real previews?
I'm guessing it won't really ramp up until about 6 weeks before release....
Meech17
Adventurer
That's certainly possible.. Probable even.. I do hope we get little bits drip fed to us the whole way though..
bedir than
Full Moon Storyteller
You're definitely not going to see "real previews" of a book coming out in Fall before the Vecna book's release.
Dan Dillon
Explorer
Per the fireside chat they're in printout review stage now on the 2024 Player's Handbook. We're not getting actual previews until that phase is done and the book is out the door to be printed. Until the files are sent, changes might happen, and they don't like giving previews that they then have to "nevermind."
Just look at everyone confused about Necromancer wizards in the 24 PH or not.
Just look at everyone confused about Necromancer wizards in the 24 PH or not.
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
I know. I think that's probably the wrong strategy. The news/discourse cycle goes on without them and there's always going to be enough Hasbro shenanigans happening that there tends to be plenty of bad news that a more active marketing team would be working to negate with smaller, more frequent news dumps.
I suspect the WotC president resigning would have gotten a lot less attention if it happened simultaneously with "here's what halflings look like now," which doesn't require hours from the developers to shoot a video, then hours to edit into multiple videos and then days of management watching, wanting tweaks and signing off on.
This is a pretty inefficient system they've got going. I get that it's what they're used to doing, but they could/should also have some smaller stuff coming out more regularly that doesn't require so much work and so many sign-offs. Just release one small thing a week that is near-final. They could even have an announced schedule where it rotates between, say, a spell, a species, a monster, a magic item, a spell, a feat, etc., maybe even with a poll (with all of the options previously approved and vetted, so there's no downside between people voting to see "orc brute" over "urd" or whatever).
The big long previews also compete with news about books like Vecna or Infinite Staircase in the way that "here's a picture of a paladin from their spread in the 2024 PHB" would not.
aco175
Legend
I'm now picturing memes of the dancing halfling in the old PHB merging with the new halfling to show the backwards compatibility.
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
Well, now that you've given me the idea, I'll have to make one of those transition GIFs when we finally see what the big-headed monstrosities look like in 2024.
LordEntrails
Hero
Like all the Vecna adds that have been flooding my social media?
Ooh, yea. I can't imagine even little things like this not being picked up by the Click Baiters and otherwise WotC=Evil folks and using it to constantly fuel their diatribe.
I guess I'm so fed up with the constant stream of crap that I don't want these things. Just let's get reviews from the trusted sources who get early release copies and then give us access to the product when its ready. I don't see any benefits to "our" constant demand for attention and engagement.
Speaking of which, that's enough of my time wasted for now. Time to go do something constructive!
