Hidden Path Entertainment Is Making an Open World Dungeons & Dragons Video Game
Hidden Path Entertainment is hiring staff to make an open world
Dungeons & Dragons video game. Last week, Hasbro confirmed that Hidden Path Entertainment was one of several video game developers working on
Dungeons & Dragons products. Hidden Path then provided additional details about their upcoming D&D video game when they posted several job positions for an AAA, third-person, open-world fantasy RPG set within the
Dungeons & Dragons franchise. The positions include a graphics programmer, a lead graphics programmer, a senior technical artist, and a writer. Additionally, Whitney Beltran, the designer of the tabletop RPG
Dungeons & Dragons to Increase Cadence of Product Releases
Wizards of the Coast could be increasing the number of new
Dungeons & Dragons products released every year. During this week s Habsro Investor Presentation, Wizards of the Coast president Chris Cocks discussed the ongoing success of the
Dungeons & Dragons brand, which is anchored by the popular tabletop roleplaying game. For
Dungeons & Dragons, we re coming off our best year ever, Cocks said. We are aiming to capitalize off that momentum in 2021 with new formats and storytelling opportunities in our main campaigns while increasing the cadence of those releases.
Cocks didn t provide any further details about
Wizards of the Coast Gets a Big Promotion at Hasbro
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Wizards of the Coast will become its own operating division within Hasbro, reflecting the wild success experienced by the game maker over the last five years. Hasbro will announce the news later today at an investor event. Under the re-organization, Wizards will become one of three Hasbro divisions and will be tasked with expanding
Both
Dungeons & Dragons and
Magic: The Gathering have seen explosive growth over the last five years, and has not been slowed by the ongoing pandemic. While
Dungeons & Dragons has benefited from increased pop culture relevance and more fans coming in due to a 2015 rules update,
Dungeons & Dragons Announces Van Richten s Guide to Ravenloft
Dungeons & Dragons is returning to Ravenloft with
Van Richten s Guide to Ravenloft. Wizards of the Coast announced that a new 256-page campaign setting book focused on the horror-inspired world of Ravenloft will be released on May 18, 2021.
Van Richten s Guide to Ravenloft will not only update the various Domains of Dread that make up Ravenloft, but also provide players with three new lineages and two new subclasses to use in any campaign.
Van Richten s Guide to Ravenloft will also include a new Dark Gifts mechanic, which provides players with various benefits but at a potentially deadly cost.
Dungeons & Dragons Gets a Vault of Magic Items
Vault of Magic, a new grimoire containing over 800 magic items for
Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition. Not only is this one of the largest compendiums of magic items published for Fifth Edition rules,
Vault of Magic also contains dozens of magic items created by a fantastic line up of guest designers, including Deborah Ann Woll, Luke Gygax, Daniel Kwan, Victoria Rogers and other well-known names from the D&D community.
Included in
Vault of Magic are multiple Fabled Items, a new kind of magic items. These are magic items that grow with the player, gaining new magic properties as the player learns of the item s history and true nature. Also included are a number of consumable magic items and witchy concoctions, designed to provide campaigns with different kinds of magic items that aren t meant to be hoarded and unused in a Bag of Holding.