The Tragic Launch of the New D&D TV Channel
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D&D Adventures has launched! It's a D&D streaming channel that nobody asked for. It's broken and nobody cares, and I think that's sad.
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This is what happens when you stop going to conventions and playing games with fans. They have no idea who their fan base is, what they want, or how to reach them. Rock on, Will. You delivered this news as kindly as possible, and WoTC should thank you.
for real bro! I got nothing against the shows, it's weird people can't watch them even if they wanted, and the amount of people commenting they've never even HEARD of them is terrifying. Massive waste of potential, totally disconnected from their audience. Hope you're good dude!
@@DnDShortsthis video is the first I've heard of it.
Though apparently some people are saying the shows looked bad so idk, maybe it's better we don't see them.
😂
This failure is shocking, because it's literally the thing that would make them money from this effort. This is past "out of touch" and squarely in "basically incompetent."
The Witcher season 3 was bad and out of touch, but I KNEW IT EXISTED.
And a lot of us still watched it *only* for Henry Cavill.@@brianfox340
Hey, the professor is here
This was the first time I’ve heard of these shows and that just confuses me, this literally felt like hasbro went up to someone and said “hey you want to see something funny” then pulled a lever which dropped millions of dollars in lava
same never heard of them
It's legitimately that one episode of Bojack Horseman where he does drop millions into fire
Same. TV channel? I do tech support for a TV channel and I (sometimes) play D&D and I didn't know about this. Guess it makes my producer pitch irrelevant. 😢
YES! Just looking at the clips from this vid , the d-list "stars" , sets , and all the other bts that goes into something like this is a MASSIVE investment, staggeringly so.
This is the equivalent of someone 'dropping the bag' whist simultaneously shitting their pants, tripping over their own feet, and then power-bombing said bag directly and powerfully with that shit-speared ass....
A million dollars burning up in lava would be both funny and sad, just like how these shows are being handled.
regardless if the shows are good or not, my heart goes out to the people who worked on them and barely even got a chance due to poor organization and promotion.
Thanks! We're doing our best. 😊
I wouldn't be surprised if legal action was pursued
Hasboro sold the division (eOne) that's responsible for creating this D&D channel to Lionsgate earlier this year. So it might not be a case of mismanagement so much as Haboro trying to kill the infant in it's cradle. The D&D channel was already well on its way when the sale went through, but Hasboro probably didn't really want Lionsgate to have the D&D license. Especially since they seem to still have their own plans for future TV related projects.
Oh this is the first time I've heard Hasboro and I like it.
What a shame
Well, that sounds like a plausible explanation, I don't believe they'd simply not put the shows online even if without promotion, unless for some legal or executive deliberate decision.
I am not entirely sure if that's true because eOne was also in part responsible for the D&D movie. But, that being said, I'm also not saying that they didn't decide to be like "No, we want vast majority of whatever revenue this will get, so we're just gonna screw this entire thing over."
Which, after the OGL fiasco (that I am STILL salty about), I wouldn't put it past Hasbro and WotC to do such a thing.
@@GrimnirsGrudge, how about Hasbrodeus?
Yup. Clicked on this video not to see why the launch of these shows were bad, but to simply learn *that these shows exist in the first place* and what they're about and why I should care or where I could look into them. Never knew they were a thing.
Same. I had no idea this was even a thing.
Real talk, as a creator I can see that care was put into these shows. That doesn't mean they're good, but any creatively driven, passionate project deserve better than this. This launch is so awful it makes me wonder if, with E-One in the process of being handed over to Lionsgate, the project has been basically "flushed" by Hasbro and WotC.
What a waste of money
I could have used that for cookies
I think you’re out of order. Surely the people working on a D&D cooking show just want to take the money and run, praying that no one ever watches it. Let the poor people hide in peace 😂
They looked pretty bad, though I was interested in the one with Seth Green I think. I was dumbfounded when I watched the trailers after they came out. Hasbro needs an advocate team for each of their brands, a group of passionate people who help guide the clueless suits into the most effective and respectable ways of monetizing each brand. A group that has the power to say no to bad ideas.
Agree with the "flushing" theory. This feels a lot like the recent films that were binned off for tax reasons
These shows have been left out in the cold to die of (under) exposure and it sucks
I found it within a couple minutes, or at least the live plex channel.
Freeve is a hybrid streaming service. Some of their shows are on demand. But some are only on live TV. There is a D&D channel that you watch like a regular TV channel. Shows on the live TV channels are only shown at a set time. For example, as I'm writing this comment (3:30 pm PST on Wednesday), they are currently showing the 80's D&D cartoon. With Heroes' Feast coming up next, and High Rollers after that. I believe Purple Worm Kill Kill is on Friday evening at 6 or 9 pm (I don't remember exactly).
It's definitely a strange business model, going back to the inconvenience of live television.
Exactly this! I'm a little disappointed that his research for this video didn't cover this issue. I didn't realize that the channel and shows were considered unknown as I have seen several articles in the lead-up to launch regarding the channel and especially Mathew Lillard's Faster Purple Worm, Kill! Kill!. I read several reviews of Purple Worm (probably from sites like IGN, GameSpot, CBR) that had me excited to watch. Maybe my Google algorithm is particularly well tuned, but I was excited for launch and to watch some new D&D content!
I was unable to catch the premier, so I figured I'd just find it On Demand in the Freevee app the next day... NOPE! I searched the show and nothing came up. I searched "Dungeons and Dragons" which took me to the channel playing a marathon of the old cartoon, but would only show me the current show and next up, the next episode of the cartoon. I gave up and decided to try again later. The following week I went to look for it and had to scroll through about 250 channels on the guide before I found the channel and caught the last 10 minutes of an episode of Purple Worm.
There is no excuse to launch something like this locked to a live TV schedule like the commentor above mentioned. Freevee doesn't even let you look more than a show or two ahead, so if they air reruns, I have no way to find out.
I hope they fix this and launch even more great content, but as it stands this CAN NOT succeed in a viewing model that's less user friendly than 90's broadcast TV.
I've never heard of these shows until your video. I think WOTC should be praised for producing programming that embodies both the invisibility and the cone of silence spells.
Yep. First time hearing about this. The fact that the creators on the shows have no idea what's going on at all is absurd. It should be all over the front of D&DBeyond, the D&D website, and all over social media. The fact that there is a couple of RUclips trailers and nothing else is truly strange.
ditto
Absurd does not even begin to cover it, with the budget it must have taken to get all this made, their marketing budget should have been enough for them to get up-front ad spots up EVERYWHERE! I'm talking AMA's here , CR live-reads, ALL over their own media outlets as you mentioned, ad reads on EV-ER-RY dinky youtube show from this one to the one where the dork "throws it back" , ON TOP of a fairly wide scattershot of google ads targeted at anyone who has ever looked at anything on the internet tangentially related to DnD...
And the fact that this was not done , and that something like this is just out there to the interest of no one, is staggering ineptitude on their part!!
Wait a minute. Given the names that are in this, and the OTHER shows theyre part of, its weird that none of THEM have mentioned anything, "Oh by the way..." Which means they signed an NDA,... why?
@@Highwaym4n COULD have been the actors strike which prohibited them from promoting anything they were acting in. That would also explain why they shit the bed so badly marketing, if their entire strategy was the actors doing appearance promotions in myriad venues.
@Highwaym4n The Reddit account of the actor in the video has gone silent since he said he was going to speak to higher ups. He may have been told to stop talking about his show, which would be very sad if true.
I watch A LOT of D&D videos, yours included. yet had absolutely no idea this official effort existed.
Oh that explains Ann Woll's recent promotion of the book "Heroes' Feast", it's a companion for the TV show itself and part of her work with helming at least one of the shows. I was so happy to see her in another property as she LOVES DnD. I'm really sad to see the mismanagement.
Well ... yes and no. The book has been out for about 2 years. So the show is kind of a companion to the book, not the other way around.
I saw the trailer for Faster Purple Worm and thought it was just going to be on the D&D RUclips channel, which I am subscribed to, so I figured I'd see it when it got posted. The trailer does not make it clear that you need to get a separate streaming service for this.
no, I did not in fact know about this. my reaction to this video was "there's a new DnD TV channel??? ...why???"
but damn I'm just so so sorry to the creatives here, they really just got locked in the back room where no one can hear them scream as the execs set the building on fire.
I’m in the middle of an executive-dysfunction depressive episode combo and the words “you’re doing better than these shows” actually made me feel a lot better. Also yes, this is the first I’m hearing of this
Same here
Yes this 100%
I hope you're feeling better! 😊
As a person with depression that video ending meant a lot. Secondly, this was indeed the first time I heard these shows existed. I love DnD and I watch a lot of it on youtube with Critical Role, Dimension 20, World of Io and a lot of other minor shows like a new one that has an AI as a DM. Yet i had no clue they existed.
The new one with an AI is super small with barely any views or subscriptions but I found that one over the actual DnD offical shows.
I saw the shorts on RUclips, so was subscribed to their channel thinking that is where they would be released. It wasn't until after the show was released and didn't appear on RUclips that I went searching for it, and I couldn't get it to play. I'm not sure if its blocked to some countries, was just not working at the time or what, but I wasn't excited enough to fight the service any further to try and see them. I'll give it a watch if they put it up on RUclips, but they may well have agreements with those two channels and advertisers, so who knows if they'll ever be easily accessible.
REALLY want to see the venn diagram crossing people who play D&D and people who didn't declare TV dead at like 2016
Its probably not for people who already play
It's weird, because it's not even like a cable or broadcast network. It's just stuff on a free streaming service. Calling it a "channel" makes no sense.
IKR? I've been playing since early 2E and I haven't watched actual TV in ~years~. Idk why they think they can make me watch something on their schedule *and* feed me adds every 10 mins. No thanks.
@@imayb1 You forgot that you still have monthly bill for that "experience" !
I had heard about them from listening to the Eldritch Lorecast podcast where they talk about tabletop news. I watched three episodes of Faster Purple Worm Kill Kill on release day Nov. 13th. The channel was incredibly hard to find. I googled the name of the show and that took me to the Beadle and Grimm website. I then followed the freevee link to the Amazon live tv page. After scrolling down for what felt like an eternity, I finally found the channel. Then the worst part, and I knew this going into it, is that the channel is ad supported. So every ten minutes, you have to sit through 2 to 4 minutes of ads. I have not gone back to the channel since watching those three episodes which is a shame because the show is actually pretty good.
This does work, but it's insane how much effort and time it takes to do this.
@@portsyde3466 Oh, I almost got there, but was scrolling through all the shows on Amazon. It seemed engless. Uhh, Amazon, why isn't there a search engine in that space?
Because of this I was able to find it, but with the added wrinkle of needing to fire up a VPN to make sure Amazon thought I was in the US (which is I think what @dndshorts didn't do since he got the "Travelling?" page, which is what non-US based browsers will see), then scrolling down the Freevee list forever.... It is definitely NOT available in Canada. FreeVee is not part of the Amazon Canada Prime Video channels.
@@everythingsablur What also boggles my mind is you can't just search or filter for it. You literally have to scroll all the way down till you see it, like wtf.
@@Rule907 Can't search for it, AND can't bookmark or favorite either the show OR the channel? Like who designed this UI??? Even a modern cable box let's you favorite a channel!
My first thought when I saw this video in my recommendations was, "what D&D TV channel?" This is also the first I've heard of any of these shows.
Also when talking about other shows, I'm surprised you didn't mention Viva La Dirt League's D&D game. It is amazingly fun to watch, and their other content is top notch!
not the first time i heard of them, but i 100% went through the exact song & dance as portrayed in my attempts to catch the premier of FPWKK. still haven't seen any of it. I have amazon prime & stuff (which shouldn't matter since it's on the free part), but it's like a ghost channel...
This is the first I'm hearing of a D&D TV channel... and I'm pretty sure I'm subscribed to the D&D RUclips channel.
Insane, right? Did you know there was a 40k show you can't watch in half the world + behind a paywall? Zero advertisement...
@@GalardomondI knew that one, but that is only because they force TTS to stop making new episodes.
Well, that's good to know I didn't miss something there. I blocked their YT channel a while back and haven't bothered unblocking it, so I assumed it was something announced there... Guess not 😅
This is absolutely the first time I've heard about this.
Was Hasbro's goal to just make the DnD brand burn through as much money as possible this year? Because if so, congrats - mission accomplished
Hey Will, small business owner (sole-proprietor) here: thank you for this video, it makes me feel much, much less of a failure in my endeavors. Cheers, we love you, you're the man! From Somerville, MA.
This is the first I've heard of these shows. Seeing the casting and concepts, it's stuff I definitely would have earmarked to check out if I had known they existed. The lack of promotion from official sources seems practically deliberate, though for what reason I couldn't possibly guess.
What I gathered from this comment section is that the freevee option blows chunks, so I tried plex. I was able to search up each of the shows pretty easily, and I watched a 7 minute special for Encounter Party just fine. It had a few ad breaks, but it was striking to watch how emotional the cast got over walking onto their set for the first time. These people clearly put so much love into doing this show that it's heartbreaking to know the promotion has completely failed them.
I will be watching what I can of these shows, since plex seems like the better option. Those outside the US can likely watch with a VPN, according to another comment I saw, so I hope the audience will find these creators and appreciate their efforts since Hasbro clearly isn't going to assist with that.
Kind of sad to see the lack of care put into marketing. Which imo, is one of the most fun parts of making a show.
Understatement of the fucking year mate, you have no idea....
The most fun part of a show should be the art, not how you shill it for top dollar.
The shows are available on those channels, but for some insane reason they are locked into an actual programming schedule so you have to tune in at a specific time. And this is after you go through all the trouble to actually find the channel which is buried underneath hundreds of other free channels. Absolute idiocy.
You can also search for dungeons and dragons adventures to put it at the top of the search list.
I am one that did hear about all of the shows and did and want to participate in watching them. Everything poster said is true however, I persevered and was able to watch the first three episodes of Encounter Party. I still yet to have to find kill, purple, warm, kill and dungeons feast. As far as the show Encountered Party, it’s an enjoyable watch. Currently right now it’s mainly about the RP and the mystery they are basing the story around. After three episodes, there hasn’t been any encounters and you have to deal with commercials. So one hour show is more like 40 to 45 minutes of actual show.
It is an actual TV channel. Freevee is not a streaming service. That's an important distinction. And also annoying. They should have just launched it on RUclips.
As far as faster purple worm kill kill is concerned, Mathew Lillard has said that they felt putting thier show on RUclips wouldn't work. They've tried streaming on RUclips in the past and its never taken off so they wanted to try another route.
@flynnoldman3542 I think it should have been a WotC channel but done on RUclips where you could stream the shows. Personally because of work I can only watch whatever they air between 9pm -11pm. And that's if I'm not watching or doing anything else.
Right now I am watching this in a hospital where I am because of depression.
"I don't know what you're up to right now, but I promise you are doing better than the launch of the DnD TV channel"
Made me laugh what feels like the first time in weeks ^^"
I am really glad you got to laugh. I know how hard that can be when in the super low part of depression. I hope you are doing better. 😊
Vaguely recall maybe hearing an announcement about them planning to launch something way back but never heard or saw anything till now and assumed it was just killed off after a feasibility study or something. This is insane
I never knew they tried. Wow.
Congrats on the amazing Kickstarter success.
My wife and I saw a clip for the cooking show and thought it looked like it had potential; looked into how to watch, saw that it wasn’t available on demand for some reason, and quit looking. Like, I’m a sportsball fan, and I don’t watch my team’s games live; I’m sure as hell not building my schedule around a cooking show or another AP (when I’m already neck deep in the things).
This is not the first time I heard about these shows, but it is the first time I've heard about where you can find them....which is crazy.
Never heard of these shows. I heard that Deborah Ann Wohl made an adventure, but then I was bummed to find out that the only way to get it was on D&D Beyond. I knew it was connected to their weird cookbook.
The wildest thing is, I had trouble even finding the D&D official channel. I had to search the full "dungeons and dragons" to get it to even show up in the list. And even then, I had to scroll a bit to find it. That is... kinda hilarious.
The scrolling was horrible. I won't try to find it again it was so bad. Why do so many stations exist on freevee. I liked purple worm and at least got to watch two episodes before I went on to other things.
This was, in fact, the first time I had ever heard of the D&D channel or its shows. I had not known anything about them. But, it's not significant, because my gaming groups are working at winding down from our D&D campaigns and transitioning over to Paizo's Pathfinder (going with the new ORC stuff).
I was completely unaware these shows existed until a random Matthew Lillard interview on DiceBreaker, and I only watched that a couple of days ago.
The cartoon was from 1983, not the 70s.
It took me forever to finally figure out how to find the DND channel when I saw an advert for purple worm. Glad I wasn't the only one who struggled. So used to video on demand that I didn't expect it to be a live channel repeating episodes
So I only recently heard about these tv shows because I am a big glass cannon fan. Joe and Troy talked about it on their "behind the scenes" show because theyre in an episode of one of them. They told folks to check out Freevee, and even then they didnt have much information on when it come out. Just to keep checking there and keep our eyes peeled.
It should be pointed out that the writer's/actor's strike may have buggered the release of the channel. I'm fairly sure that the shows would not have fallen under exceptions granted, meaning that nothing could have been done with the shows until that was resolved. I imagine what happened was product was ready, the strike happened, Hasbro was like "welp can't do anything with this for now, we will figure it out later" then the strike ended and Hasbro decided instead of making more content to just push out the six programs they had (the dnd cartoon, purple worm, heroes feast, encounter party, and the two high rollers series) which... you know... is not enough to run a twitch channel on, never mind what is essentially supposed to be a tv network.
I feel like I heard something about it a little while ago, but this is the first significant mention of the TV channel. You'd think they'd have ads for it plastered all over dnd beyond website right now.
This is the first time I've heard of this. How is this not all over youtube? I get recommended tons of d&d videos here including this one but I have never heard of this. Bizarre rollout
The biggest problem that I can see is that WOTC (and Hasbro) has burned almost all the goodwill that fans have for anything mainline from them from a fan standpoint. On the corporate side... I think the CEO is trying to dump everything since their background come from ye olde Microsoft.
On top of this, there is essentially no product in recent memory for which they were able to build and create their own buzz...across all their brands.
They should make a version of COPS, but with Pinkerton Agents.
"We just got a call that an 11 year old bought a pack of MTG cards off ebay that doesn't officially release for 5 hours. Lethal force has been authorized."
I have heard of them all. I subscribed to the Encounter Party RUclips channel, so far, and have seen ads for all three there. I got the link for that from a DnD email.
A few weeks ago I saw some kind of ad for Hero's Feast and I assumed it was a DnD cook book. I don't recall any indication about it being a show, much less on a new DnD channel. Also, as a Canadian, I've never heard of Plex or Freevee so I don't think it is actually available here.
Plex is available in Canada. But I couldn't find the DND channel on it for the life of me. I searched it and then manually searched through channels individually but couldn't find it
this video sparked my memory this D&D channel was even going to be a thing. I remember it being mentioned somewhere before or during the OGL backlash. I had no idea where that channel was going to be or when it was coming out.
then I click on this video wondering when is this supposed to launch? wait it already has?!?
such a strange way to find out these are out.
I even remember seeing one of the trailer video thumbnails while on the D&D youtube channel and having no idea what it was for
I just accidentally came across the channel today. And like everybody else, searching for more information on it, and I came across this video, which was very informational. Thank you very much.
You're right about connecting with the community to promote these shows, but Hasbro doesn't *want* to connect with the community that exists right now. They've made it increasingly clear they want to replace the current community with one that (A) doesn't know what has been lost and (B) accepts what they're given as what should be because "it's Hasbro's game. We just play it."
I saw about 30 seconds on a smart tv on the freeve app but it’s a stream so you can’t pick episodes and its hard in a live play to know what’s going on with out context it’s like starting a book on chapter 4 with no way to stop to sleep if you like it . they really need a vod feature or RUclips.
This is my first time hearing about this and now I am at least very curious to look into Heroes Feast cause I love me some cooking shows and a DnD cooking show sounds fun.
There's also an official D&D cookbook, titled Heroes' Feast. My wife and I have made a few of the recipes from it, they're pretty tasty. The Black Pudding is always a hit at family gatherings.
i can't even find any links to the actual channels through several search engines and the plethora of news blog articles claiming the channel is out now. there's nothing on amazon either, so i can't help but wonder if this is even a real thing. i wonder if they just quietly canceled the whole project without actually announcing anything
I feel I have to note that the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon show was a 1980's show...not 1970's (specifically 1983 to 1985). I watched them when they aired on Saturday mornings as a kid.
I've watched an episode of Heroes Feast and a couple Faster Purple Worm and liked what I saw. While I didn't follow the non-working links, I found it pretty quickly on Amazon. Biggest complaint I had was that I'd rather watch it on my scedule vs. watching a set TV one.
Wait, in an era of streaming services being the top-dog and the complete decimation of the cable/standard TV kingdom… they decided to make these shows on a regular schedule? Like, you can’t just stream the episodes? You have to “tune in” at 6pm CST to watch the new episode of something?
And they thought that would work?
Bro… just… bro. They didn’t want these shows to exist. There’s no way they wanted this to exist. Feels like an embezzlement ploy.
So I spent a day searching for these shows, only ever finding the adventurers channel on freevee. It was currently on the original show and that's when I did further research and realized it was like broadcast television and the episodes would air twice a week at 4 where I live and then never return, I got mad.
Yep. It's very ridiculous that anyone thought this was a good idea. If it was just streamable on FreeVee that would be something.
This is the first time I've heard of it. Its unfortunate they are so hard to get to. I probably would have watched at least one of those shows if they were more accessible.
thanks for pointing out these exsit. i thinnk i came across an banner avert once on D&D beyond, only because i was aware of the title "the purple worm" but was busy with other stuff so never checked it out, or thought as normal it a D&D book coming out, so never even relised they were planning a TV show. so to date i'd would agree, your video is the only advert i conconsly know about.
My man, this video is like watching a better bearded _me_ take the piss out of WotC. This is glorious.
Yeah I actually saw the Encounter Party trailer and thought "I'll give it a look." Saw that it was on Freevee, which I have access to through Prime Video. Couldn't find it. Singed up for Freevee and tried that way, still nothing. Roku search revealed nothing. At that point I moved on. I really wanted to check it out, I really did. Maybe if WotC had hired a broadcast team, and tasked their PR team with drumming up some excitement, then these shows would at least have a shot. Maybe some day.
Tried the same route through Amazon Video and still nothing comes up.
I think I remember a comment on the RUclips trailer video saying it wasn't going to be available on RUclips but it would be out somewhere but I've not been bothered to look into that.
I think its more reasonable to think Wizards accidentally hired someone to purposely hide the shows and make it hard for people to find them with how wizards has been run the last several years
There actually is RUclips advertising for encounter party, very similar to dimension 20 actually. A few posts about it, and then shorts showing some fun clips about the show.
But it’s on the encounter party RUclips channel, a channel with only 1.2 THOUSAND subscribers.
I remember hearing mention of this being a upcoming thing about 6 months ago and entirely forgot until I watched this video.
I think I remember barely hearing about this, then I forgot as quickly. I thought it wasn't confirmed, just an idea pitch. Also, the animated Dungeons & Dragons show came out in 1983.
I knew about Encounter Party after I went through their Ravnica campaign but hadn’t heard much else from them until on a whim I looked them up and found they were doing a channel. I’m sad that this is the position that they’ve ended up in
Probably 80% of my RUclips feed is D&D content. Seeing this video pop up as a suggestion is the first I've heard about a D&D channel. I think you're correct in your assertion that this is the most advertising those shows have received.
I think I heard about heroes feast somewhere. I can't really recall where, but I certainly wasn't aware that it was on an entire channel dedicated to D&D content.
It is really tough. They are also on a FAST channel that doesn’t allow for on demand. I haven’t had a chance to catch Encounter Party yet. But I LOVE the premise of Faster Purple Worm. It is an incredibly entertaining premise for an episodic 1 hour actual play. Encounter Party is something I wish I could binge because a “syndicated style” run seems counter intuitive to a long form actual play. Overall I have really enjoyed the content. I just wish there was a way to consume it on demand. And yes the DnD cartoon is there on repeat as filler. Which is a nod to my long ago childhood. Overall 7/10 for the shows, 3 out of 10 to try and watch them.
I check pretty regularly for play test material updates on the official dnd RUclips channel and I've never even heard of these shows until you brought it up. I'd love to give them a shot but if they can't be watched then oh well I guess.
I would DEFINITELY give those shows a try! But yeah, had no idea they even existed…
I heard they were making a channel a while ago. But had no idea it launcher. And Matt Lilard did promo for Purple Worm on Jorphdans channel, but I didn't know it was actually on DnDs channel. Apparently you can only watch it live and if you don't see it live your out of luck. Which is weird.
I knew they were coming out with the D&D channel, but I honestly thought it was still in development I had hear so little about it
That's insane! I've literally never heard of any of this before. I'm beyond annoyed with wizards but would have watched the cooking show with Matthew Lillard. He's been one of my favorites since Hackers when I was a kid
Thank you for speaking about this issue, it has been frustrating not hearing any news or not able to watch faster purple worm kill kill and Encounter party for someone who lives in the UK. Again thank you @DnDShorts
As always, a loverly balenced happy video. Really liked it. I think I'd seen an ad for 'Faster Purple Worm, Kill Kill' (I think that's what it's called?) but that it was part of the DND TV channel was news to me. This is such an amazing messup!
I found the channel on launch day (after too much searching and scrolling through FreeVee channels) because a couple of the D&D accounts I follow on Twitter mentioned Faster Purple Wurm, Kill! Kill! was launching. I've over all enjoyed the shows but outside of Faster Purple Wurm and Heroes Feast they're not really breaking any new ground either. It's definitely sad at how poorly the promotion and advertising is being done.
When I imagined a D&D show, I imagined either Critical Role (live play or Legend of Vox Machina), or the show Geek Knights is trying to Kickstart (the visuals jump between the table and the action).
Pop up ad during WorldAnvil ad for a socket wrench thing, Ad inception!
When you posted this, I figured it was just happening today or something and I missed all of the promo for it. I do live under a rock often! But to hear that it came out WEEKS ago and still nobody is talking about it?? Crazy! XD
I think this will go as well at the Time People tried to make a TV show about Vampire the Masquerade.
Except I can type that into google and get an immediate link to Amazon to buy the collector's set of DVDs. I doubt that will happen for these. :)
I enjoyed Kindred the Embraced, it just needed time like Buffy did.
This was the first i had heard of these shows, and i suspect the lack of any kind of promo or care is probably because its finally dawned on wizards they have killed their brand and they are now spending as little as possible
It gets weirder. They had WotC making a more complete Hells guide (Chains of Asmodeus)… and didn’t release it on the platform they own to get more out of it themselves.
There’s not promoting your things, and then there’s not even trying to get money for the things you already have.
Thanks for this D&D TV advertisement. I would have never known about it otherwise
As a big D20 fan, that list of D20 albums who are apparently on these shows is a killer list, too. Production quality looks amazing. They genuinely look and sound like a good product. Wild stuff.
I did not know these shows existed until this video. Looking at the dimension 20 cast members who are in it, I'd watch (my dropout subscription gets more use than the bigger players like netflix or prime) but it doesn't sound like I can...
I'm curious if DnD shorts ever managed to hit the shorts monetization milestones.
I did the math and they seem to be near impossible to achieve.
Edit 1: The 10 million views in 90 days milestone math breakdowns are so extreme that even critical role might not even be able to do it with out hiring a person just to clip stuff out to make shorts everyday.
I recall seeing that they were going to come out some months ago, but never knew they came out. As someone who has the Hero's Feast book, I would love to see someone actually make these foods.
The Glass Cannon Network has my favorite podcasts and they were involved in Faster Purple Worm, Kill, Kill! They've been promoting it on their podcast, so I knew about the channel and I'm looking forward to trying to catch their episodes.
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The killer is that on Freevee, it's like old-school TV. You have to watch the episode on Thursday nights at 9pm PT. The hell?! That's 12am ET for me. Sheesh!
Just a side note: Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! Is such an obscure reference to make for the title of your new DnD show. This whole thing feels like a high school group project where half the team just didn't do what they were supposed to.
The production value and likely tiny budget of this is quite in-line with the Russ Meyer films of the 60s. You are right, it is very obscure.
Yeah was gonna comment something similar, these names feel very much like stuff you throw out as a first random joke suggestion on a group project.
I saw a thumbnail for purple worm somewhere but had no idea an entire channel existed (or didn't exist i guess)
Thank you for this sanity check! I tried and failed to find a viable link, and gave up thinking it was regional restrictions (Australian here). Glad it’s the multi billion dollar brand, and not me, that seems to have missed the mark on this one.
I heard about them about 2 weeks ago when I first saw the launch trailers? But I didn't realize that meant the shows were supposed to be airing then...
I had no idea this was a thing, did a double take on seeing your video title and said "huh??"
I have heard about these shows... from my DM, who was talking about them to our group last week, mentioning Heroes Feast and the cartoon series. And he said he couldn't find FreeVee to actually watch them. He was genuinely excited that the shows were being made but had the same problem! I didn't think much of it because I wasn't likely to tune in but I could see how it would be instantly interesting to many people. It's sad that it got fumbled this badly.
I just heard about the D&D Tv channel today for the first time at a game session. One player mentioned he'd been watching some of the content, the rest of players at the table (including me) didn't know it even existed. Then I came home to see this video on my feed. sigh
The best thing about a corporation's failure due to utterly avoidable mismanagement is that they can use it as a tax write-off.
You have now made me aware of several shows I will miss.
Thank you?
i had so little idea this existed that i thought this video was going to be about some failed project from the early 2000s
I thank that in the actual DnD online community, just a few would have managed the topic with a so polite approach. You just really feel what you say. Thank you. That's why I follow your contents with pleasure. This is the focus and the language that I espect from a pro. Keep on
I’m on the encounter party discord (200 members strong) they have to recommend using a VPN to watch the show but this doesn’t work as your Amazon account is linked to your country. The episodes are apparently now on demand but still can access them. I asked about RUclips/twitch and they said no
I had no idea any of this was a thing genuinely. Shame to hear things aren't working correctly hopefully things get better.
A GM and cast member of a podcast I really like said they would be on the purple worm show. I was looking forward to watching it. I heard mention that it would be live, or livestream?, and wouldn’t be watchable after their one time. But I know I wanted to watch it if able.
@DnDShorts Your video was legitimately the first time I had heard about this channel. I want to watch all the shows but it's really inconvenient to find. I did find it on Plex using the link on D&D Beyond but using a VPN set to the US. Are you also not based in the US? Maybe that's why the link is normally broken for us? Because it's a live channel (does anyone watch that anymore?), most shows are at 1 am and beyond for my time zone. 😢
If you search "encounter party bitten apple" you will find an interview with Brian David Junkins who gives more info about it than WotC ever did and that is from 3 years ago