Tabletop News Tuesday is back on The Character Sheet with some big Fantasy and TTRPG news, including D&D’s alarming new pre-order bonus policy for Vecna Eve of Ruin, NASA…yes, THAT NASA…releasing their own TTRPG…and yet ANOTHER A.I. art scandal hitting the tabletop gaming industry! Plus a new Age of Sigmar faction gets revealed, a Survivor contestant talks D&D on the show, and much more!
So why is WotC’s plans for the Vecna Eve of Ruin pre-order such a dangerous cash grab? What do you even do in a TTRPG Created by NASA? And how has yet another A.I. controversy rocked the Tabletop World? Find out right now on The Character Sheet!
0:00 Intro
0:42 D&D’s Dangerous Cash Grab?
2:49 NASA’s First TTRPG
3:28 Age Of Sigmar NEW Faction
4:06 New AI Art Scandal
5:22 Survivor Contestant Play D&D
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Are you annoyed with D&D new pre-order paywall? Are you excited to play some NASA based TTRPG's? Let us know in the comments!
I am not a fan of this type of preorder. I am surprised it did not come with unique dice and character sheet enhancements.
NASA is cool!
Hate this especially how non permanent this is especially those who want it and cant afford it
Annoyed is a good word for it … I already did not like that we got digital only content, and now we get limited release digital only content? What a bummer.
Despite it being digital only, I really liked the 4 Spelljammer intro adventures on D&D Beyond, and those were free! What happened?
Stop it, pre-order benefits is a commom market practice nowadays, you like it or not. There is no story here. This nonsensical D&D witch-hunt is getting pretty old already.
It won't be lost. It's situations like this that I promote the use of piracy.
Yeah it stinks but I it will not bother me as I cannot afford the books or have anyone to play with. 😢
This preorder stuff is everywhere. It’s certainly better than say the Valentine’s Day Staley cup from target. I will take limited time over buying a case of miniatures from an exclusive promo wizkids wt etc etc. I do agree it’s not the best but it’s a 1 shot adventure and I really need more information before im buying.
I actually think it would be cool if the Nasa people helped Wizards with their Spelljammer mechanics. I heard that people were disappointed because the spell jammer ships in the D&D materials don't have an explanation re how they work.
Who cares about ai?
Pre-Order is a trap.
If you planned to buy the product. Youll buy it.
If you didnt plan on buying it, you wont.
Trying to bribe you into buying it before it can be viewed by the public?
Shady AF.
Fallout 76 taught me that and I will never forget it.
NEVER Pre-order.
Ever.
Oh, and love your channel…but PLEASE stop with that silly ass FOMO shit.
It doesnt exist.
It is called the Law of Scarcity.
And it has been around for centuries.
Nothing wrong with preorder extras. Preorder “can” numbers drive a lot if other factors like helping to forecast print runs or general interest to start development on similar content. To encourage this they understandably want to give people an incentive to put their money down early. I’m not preordering but I don’t see anything wrong with this as a business model. I think we should stop whining about getting extra content.
They are going to move more and more to the dreaded add-on and preorder style videogames have adopted and created shotty products and partial products delivered at full price… not a fan
I can only say I sincerely hope NOBODY decides to Bit Torrent the adventure, because that would be piracy and WoTC deserves to get everything they deserve.
Are you using clips from Hazbin Hotel now?
I gotta be honest I can barely stand the clips from movies/shows that get shoehorned in between segments. I am moreso tired of that show, as much as I love your updates this might be too much, time will tell
Wizards execs showing their video game backgrounds. not cosmetics, not feelies, but actual core content. The actual gaming experience at the table will be objectively worse for those who don't pre-order because they miss a chapter of the adventure (it doesn't matter that it's a one-shot; it's still part of the overall Vecna story that those who wait for reviews or other info don't get). This is the same monetizing FOMO crap that videogame publishers have been pulling for years. It's one thing to offer extras for pre-orders, but not to withhold part of the product for people that don't.
I was pretty let down when I kept reading NASA RPG everywhere, but it turned out to be actually just a 5e adventure. I went into the PDF looking for the rules but found not a single one.
That first news makes me yo ho ho ho ho and a bottle of rum
There's one bit of D&D news I want to know about…when is Mighty Nein going to premiere on Amazon Prime?
Didn’t Disney try this scare tactic by threatening to put their IPs “in the vault … never to be seen again”?
The NASA RPG sounds cool.
WotC being WotC . Trying to rip off their players again
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Why didn’t NASA use a science fiction game for their adventure?! If it was a new system I can understand, but just an adventure, they should have used a popular sci-fi system!! Hmm what system would that be?
Stop it. AI art is not bad.
Sorry but that's not a cash grab, just a little fun way to encourage people to preorder the book. Not that big of a deal and in no way underhanded. Appealing to FOMO isn't necessarily unethical. Literally any sale ever users this tactic.
NASA missed putting out content for Star Frontiers or Traveller, but better late than never I guess. Do they not know about BattleTech by the way? ?;- )
Awesome! Yesterday, I had downloaded all the NASA TTRPG game documents…pretty good material, with a Tolkien-esque map of Exlaris, Aldastron. …I started creating the setting/terrain for it, as I imagine it…Looking forward to playing this, with our kiddos, once I return from a work trip later this week! 🙂 Love it!
NASA release ttrpg should be amazing seeing they are the masters of fiction & fantasy
Weird that NASA has to go to such lengths to get people interested in science…..guess it reflects the time we live through.