WotC Is Creating A D&D RIVAL?! Why Is This Happening?

[@j0nasbs]

That's not the only Exodus WotC needs to worry about. :D

[@collinthebenevolentbandit]

😂🤣😂

[@NomadOfEndings]

I was wondering when the hell SOMEONE was going to cover this bombshell. This news has been out for 3 days now and BARELY a peep! lol

[@AboveTheTableNews]

Yeah, we were recovering from Thanksgiving or it would have gone up on Friday!

[@Mark73]

Oh, I saw that trailer yesterday. At first I thought it was a movie, then when I realized it was a game and I thought it was a video game.

[@alangilmer2224]

It's about space? Should be enough for everyone.

[@AboveTheTableNews]

Yeah, we guess if stafinder and pathfinder co-exist, so could these two

[@matthewsnow-zj1cu]

James Ohlen along with Drew Karpyshyn were instrumental in the creation of both Knights of the Old Republic and Mass Effect. They are both working on / producing Exodus. So hopefully it will have the same kind of rollicking, dark sci-fi tone. The early trailers are pretty cool and narrated by someone who sounds suspiciously like CR’s Suntree. Arcanum Worlds supplements for DnD were well produced, especially their first, Odyssey of the Dragonlords. That was a full 1-20 Classical Greek inspired narrative with its own comparing setting which was distinct from Theros. Fingers crossed Ohlen steals fire from the gods again.

[@AboveTheTableNews]

We actually do have pretty high hopes for the Exodus video game for those exact reasons!

[@alexllenas4607]

They really aren't stepping on D&D toes, Exodus is looking to be a full space sci-fi RPG while D&D is medieval High fantasy, even if they are people HB the complete game and only leaving the d20 to make it sci-fi, you will want Exodus for space and not D&D.

[@AboveTheTableNews]

That is fair to a degree, but lots of people are big fans of both genres, which in turn does make it a competitor to D&D, especially if it has no interaction with 5e given that none of the D&D team has worked on it.

[@RIVERSRPGChannel]

Interesting I had not heard this

[@c.d.dailey8013]

From what I can see in this video, Exudos seems so different from DND. There is a big difference in the narative genre. DND is fantast, while Exodus is Sci-fi. They seem to be catering to different audiences. So I don't expect moch competition between the two games. It reminds me of how Paizo has both Pathfinder and Starfinder. I don't know much about Starfinder, but it does seem like its own seperate TTRPG. If Exodus is successful, I can imagine WOTC releasing more TTRPGs of other narrative genres. There can be a horror game, a western game, a superhero game etc. DND has a kitchen sink approach to fantasy. It seems that fans can push that a bit too far. One nice solution is to release seperate games to better accomidate it. I am guessing that is the motive for Exodus.

[@AboveTheTableNews]

Yeah, we originally thought this could be a Starfinder/pathfinder situation, but the complete lack of involvement from the D&D team actually puts that theory on ice in our minds.

[@hermesalexandria]

Alternity was a pretty good TSR product. I didn't get into d20 Modern, but it had it's audience.

[@Arnsteel634]

This has been done many many many times over the last 50 years. See you even familiar with their history.

[@LordZeebee]

Oooh, a game made with WotC level money and designed without all the preconceived notions of what DnD is? Could be real neat.

[@cuttlefist]

I don’t understand the alarmism. With the demand for Mothership, Death in Space and Starfinder there is clearly a market for Sci-fi/fantasy TTRPGs that doesn’t eat into the fantasy TTRPG market. I am not excited for anything being released by Hasbro, and already have several sci-fi/fantasy books like the aforementioned systems so I probably won’t be trying Exodus, but I’m sure if it is well done and merketed well it will do fine alongside DnD.

[@redhanded8367]

Do my ears deceive me or is that Christian Hoffer’s voice gracing my feed with RPG news once again?

[@AboveTheTableNews]

Indeed, he is back!

[@Mark73]

Can't wait to completely ignore this.

[@envytee9659]

It's obvious why this is happening. WOTC doesn't have an answer to Starfinder... and this may very well be that answer. Honestly, if I were WOTC, I would take a page out of Paizo's book and have Exodus run on the same TTRPG system as 5e, with some tweaks ofcourse. For those who aren't aware, Pathfinder 2E and Starfinder 2E both run on the same system, so its easy for you to play both if you know how to play one. Not only that, but the content from one game can be fairly seamlessly used in the other game, at least mechanically. This is how things should be.

[@Itachi45481]

Cool concept doubt it will be as big as dnd but cool I guess I just hope this wasn’t a project made due to the bridge burning for dnd but I feel it’s just a new thing that I hope was an attempt to innovate

[@PMMagro]

It seesm to be science fiction and time travel, kind of different from D&D.

[@SilverScribe85]

BLECH! I hate sci-fi