Wizards of the Coast president Chris Cocks revealed some plans about Dungeons & Dragons‘ in the video game realm.
In an interview with GameIndustry.biz, Cocks revealed that fans can expect a total of six Dungeons & Dragons-themed video games over the next five years. That list includes the soon-to-be-released Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance and the still in early access Baldur’s Gate 3.
““Beyond that, expect us to continue to push the envelope on AAA role-playing, exciting co-op themes and even role-play/strategy hybrids,”
Cocks explained that Dungeons & Dragons‘ will expand more into video games is due to its large potential audience, which is much larger than tabletop games.
“As big and robust as tabletop gaming is, video games are bigger still, Around 60 million people shop in hobby stores around the world primarily purchasing strategy, role playing and collectible games like Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons. 600 million people globally play those same genres on consoles, PCs and phones, so the potential is enormous.”
He said Dungeons & Dragons or Magic: The Gathering are strangers to video games, of course. Looking at D&D alone, Cocks says the license has been used on more than 100 video games in the past 47 years, with classic examples include Eye of the Beholder, Baldur’s Gate, and Neverwinter Nights.
He kept it very vague on the upcoming games that have no been announced, but did drop a few hints.
“Each game we will bring to market will explore a different, exciting adventure and set of gameplay themes in this diverse universe, In one game you might run a thieves guild and traverse the Thieves Highway of Waterdeep, in another, you might marshal dragon hosts in the war-torn world of Krynn. In still another, you might explore the very origins of the D&D universe in real-time combat. The brand’s richness is an enabler of tons of amazing game experiences, so rather than a challenge, we see it as an amazing opportunity.”
With the mention of Krynn, the internet went into a tizzy about a Dragonlance game on the way. As I stated many times, I would not hold my breath for that, but we will see what happens..
He added that future games will attempt to explore different facets of the D&D experience instead of attempting to re-create the entire game digitally.
“We don’t feel like we need to boil that ocean with every single game experience, Instead, the depth and breadth of D&D allows us to explore a wide variety of play experiences backed by awesome lore, amazing monsters and characters, iconic stories and a gameplay system that invented the genre and still maintains the gold standard for it today.”
You can read the full interview here.
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