Dungeons & Dragons has a brand new ebook popping out—however you may have to attend some time longer for the bodily copy. The discharge of The Deck of Many Issues core rulebook has been delayed because of a streak of dangerous luck (or poor manufacturing, relying on how charitable you are keen to be). On October 28, the official D&D Twitter account made the next put up:
The digital launch will not be impacted, which tracks—you’d need to strive actual laborious to get manufacturing defects in a PDF. “After an inside evaluate we discovered the product didn’t meet our manufacturing requirements,” an additional put up on D&D Past states. “We’re sorry to these of you who’ve put in your preorders already or deliberate on choosing up your copy on November 14.”
The ebook guarantees to broaden one among D&D’s most notorious objects: the titular Deck of Many Issues. This factor’s like giving your gamers a bandolier of grenades that’ll both blow them up or give them free sweet. For instance, you might draw the Gem card, which provides you round 50,000 gold’s value of jewelry or shiny rocks. Or you might get the Spoil card, which strips you of all valuables, any property you personal, and the very garments in your again. And that is one of many nicer dangerous playing cards.
Polygon spoke with D&D’s Government Producer Kyle Brink on the topic: “The defect price [of The Deck of Many Things] is just too excessive. I can’t in good conscience ship this inventory. We have to absolutely examine it, perceive precisely what number of models are faulty—all that.” The complete launch was deliberate to incorporate a set of bodily playing cards, which appear to be the key situation in accordance with Polygon, who acquired a pre-release copy.
The web site writes: “The playing cards as shipped had conflicting shapes, with some playing cards concave and others convex … the paper bands used to safe the playing cards for cargo have been so tight that eradicating them broken the foil on the sting of the playing cards … not all of the playing cards have been the identical measurement, which means that they may not be simply shuffled.”
Brink believes these points may very well be due partially to Hasbro’s current shift away from utilizing waste merchandise like cello wrap. “We inspected very intently all the things all through the manufacturing course of to ensure all the things was going fantastic with that, and but a number of the issues that we’re seeing listed below are particularly due to a number of the paper packaging that we use.”
So—yay for the surroundings, boo to teething points. Brink does, nevertheless, say they’re hoping to get these points solved earlier than the top of the 12 months: “We hope that our investigation will meet our expectations [and] that we will get the product out to individuals this 12 months.” Till then, you may simply need to derail your DM’s hopes and goals with the brand new 66-card sturdy deck in digital format.
