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D&D 2025 Heroes of the Borderlands Starter Set preview...

Started by RNGm, March 04, 2025, 06:46:31 PM

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RNGm

March 04, 2025, 06:46:31 PM
More info apparently later this week when they're at the NY toy show.


I hope everyone is looking forward to more happy o-face cosplayers and a female barbarian moving into her adventuring college dorm room apparently.   I can't help but notice that their big splash page is showing off exclusively female character art where recognizeable but I'm sure it's just purely by coincidence and not on purpose...

Jaeger

#1
March 04, 2025, 07:04:03 PM
Wait, the art is real?

I thought it was just a joke meme someone posted on twitter...
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Ruprecht

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March 04, 2025, 07:33:23 PM
Glad to see the Keep on the Borderlands is getting a bit of love from WotC. Are they backing away from Forgotten Realms?
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Omega

#3
March 04, 2025, 07:53:46 PM
Quote from: Ruprecht on March 04, 2025, 07:33:23 PMGlad to see the Keep on the Borderlands is getting a bit of love from WotC. Are they backing away from Forgotten Realms?

Well we knew they were planning to rape Keep on the Borderlands eventually so this is zero surprise.

Omega

#4
March 04, 2025, 07:54:26 PM
I note the telltales of AI art.

Eirikrautha

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March 04, 2025, 07:54:57 PM
Quote from: Ruprecht on March 04, 2025, 07:33:23 PMGlad to see the Keep on the Borderlands is getting a bit of love from WotC.

Have you lost your fucking mind!?!  Getting "a bit of love" from WotC generally involves a property getting bent over a chair and violated repeatedly.  If you actually like Keep on the Borderlands, you'd want it to be completely ignored by WotC, rather than having to console its sobbing wreck after WotC is done with it...
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March 04, 2025, 09:27:32 PM
Quote from: Ruprecht on March 04, 2025, 07:33:23 PMGlad to see the Keep on the Borderlands is getting a bit of love from WotC. Are they backing away from Forgotten Realms?

  I expect the Keep to be in the Realms, or at least have an option. The current approach appears to be: "We are the Realms. We will add your biological and mechanical distinctiveness to our own. Your setting will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile."

Brad

#7
March 04, 2025, 09:29:09 PM
That art is something else.
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ForgottenF

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March 04, 2025, 09:45:05 PM
Quote from: Armchair Gamer on March 04, 2025, 09:27:32 PM
Quote from: Ruprecht on March 04, 2025, 07:33:23 PMGlad to see the Keep on the Borderlands is getting a bit of love from WotC. Are they backing away from Forgotten Realms?

  I expect the Keep to be in the Realms, or at least have an option. The current approach appears to be: "We are the Realms. We will add your biological and mechanical distinctiveness to our own. Your setting will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile."

Haven't they moved Keep on the Borderlands to the realms before? I feel like I've heard that somewhere.
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Nobleshield

#9
March 04, 2025, 10:04:19 PM
Horrible, horrible art. The cover is cartoony BS but at least is an action scene. But the rest? Atrocious, especially the very obviously trans Barbarian.

Insane Nerd Ramblings

#10
March 04, 2025, 11:09:13 PM
Saw it earlier on Twitter when Diversity & Dragons (IIRC) posted it. Utter dogshit art that looks like its made for halfwit Harry Potter-stans. Literally nothing in it evokes 'adventure'.
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HappyDaze

#11
March 05, 2025, 12:55:44 AM
The maps look like they might be nice.

jeff37923

#12
March 05, 2025, 01:36:25 AM
More information on the latest WotC clusterfuck.

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yosemitemike

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March 05, 2025, 01:37:01 AM
Quote from: Armchair Gamer on March 04, 2025, 09:27:32 PMI expect the Keep to be in the Realms, or at least have an option. The current approach appears to be: "We are the Realms. We will add your biological and mechanical distinctiveness to our own. Your setting will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile."

They will probably set it in Greyhawk with a sidebar about using other settings.  That's the current default DMG setting from what I have heard.

They have already done what amounts to a Realms version of this for 5e at least twice that I know of.  Lost Mines of Phandelver and Dragon of Icespire Peak are both essentially this same thing.  Here's a hub.  Here's some adventures locations and hooks.  Here's some stuff about the wilderness in between.  Here's the main thing they need to do.

I would be fine with another Lost Mines as the new intro set.  I think that style of adventure works really well as a introduction and as the starting point for a campaign.         
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Omega

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March 05, 2025, 01:55:07 AM
Quote from: ForgottenF on March 04, 2025, 09:45:05 PMHaven't they moved Keep on the Borderlands to the realms before? I feel like I've heard that somewhere.

In Return they moved it to Greyhawk if recall right.
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