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1 year ago ::
Dec 06, 2011 - 5:02PM
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Date Joined:
Jun 13, 2010
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where does anyone think the overall direction of the game is heading these days. I haven't played any tabletop games in the last six months (group broke up, or rather I broke it up, but that is another story) but I had been playing DnD pretty consitantly since 4th can out before that. I really enjoyed 4th and enjoyed seeing the system grow. Essentials didn't freak me out, I honestly saw it as more options amond many that already existed. But this year there has not been many products that got me excited. The Shadowfell/Feywild books were a bit meh for me, and the Neverwinter book was a poor subsitute for a setting. I have no interest in the boxed games they have put out. To me, the product line is feeling very full, at least in terms of core rules, and WoTC is to big a beast to survive on splatbooks and adventures like a smaller game house can. They need to sell hardbacks, and a bunch of them. To me it feels like the product cycle is coming to an end.
So, not wanting to start a flame war, a riot, or a case of indigestion for anyone, but where are we headed? Another year of increasingly obscure supliments? Are we going to dive into powercreep to keep the books coming out (even more than we have)? Or. . . I'll say it. . .
5th edition?
I know they usually have a big Con in Feb. when they showcase the lineup for the year. Lets start the wild speculation on what we will see.
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1 year ago ::
Dec 06, 2011 - 5:29PM
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Date Joined:
Oct 24, 2001
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The direction of my current game is forward. We've played every-other-week for two years now, and are 13th and 14th level. We've recognized the "bigger picture" of what we thought were local and regional incidents, learning that this is something much alrger -- with evidence that it is global.
This is all that matters to me. I believe 5th edition is coming out in the next 12 to 24 months. But until it is *released* I am not concerned.
Here are the PHB essentia, in my opinion: - Three Basic Rules (p 11)
- Power Types and Usage (p 54)
- Skills (p178-179)
- Feats (p 192)
- Rest and Recovery (p 263)
- All of Chapter 9 [Combat] (p 264-295)
A player needs to read the sections for building his or her character -- race, class, powers, feats, equipment, etc. But those are PC-specific. The above list is for everyone, regardless of the race or class or build or concept they are playing.
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1 year ago ::
Dec 06, 2011 - 5:30PM
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i'm personally expecting essentials treatment for more classes before 5th edition, as well as the still-missing mage schools.
Some epic adventure support would be great, there's been a huge outcry for it in fact.
As for 5e? maybe the year after we'll get an announcement, i think we're still inthe market research phase of development (looks at all the polls recently in Legends and Lore)
i wouldn't mind it i guess, i want to get full use out of my 4e stuff first (and i love 4e, ALOT), but eventually, i could see my self switching over, it would have to be on the promsie that 5e'd have a logner cycle though. The quality of the new edition, and my economic situation at the time would determine how soon i bother to make the switch
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1 year ago ::
Dec 06, 2011 - 6:09PM
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Date Joined:
Sep 22, 2006
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We'll be getting various themed player's option book for the next little while, as well as a large DM's boxset (BoVD) and a new setting each year. Frankly, 4e has only gotten better for me since Essentials. Shadowfell/Feywild was great. Neverwinter was great. Heroes of Shadow was fun, despite the horrible crunch. I feel 4e is the best so far.
Of course, that won't stop 5e being announced at GenCon 2014, but that should be pretty obvious to everyone.
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1 year ago ::
Dec 06, 2011 - 6:33PM
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If its time to talk about 5th edition, then its time to talk about radical errata to fix 4th edition.
4e has the ability to evolve by means of errata. We dont need 5e.
We can tinker with 4e, rethink it, clean it up, make it more friendly, more efficient, make it shine.
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1 year ago ::
Dec 06, 2011 - 6:44PM
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Date Joined:
Sep 22, 2006
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While I agree with your sentimate, but 5e on the 40th anniversary is marketing gold.
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1 year ago ::
Dec 06, 2011 - 6:54PM
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While I agree with your sentimate, but 5e on the 40th anniversary is marketing gold.
This, nuf said.
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1 year ago ::
Dec 06, 2011 - 6:57PM
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I don't think WoTC would deal out the amount of errata needed to properly 'make it shine', it would invalidate far too many books.
Right now they're even scared to fix relatively easy to fix things that have been plagueing this edition from day 1. Instead they just make feats, and I dont even mean just expertise.
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1 year ago ::
Dec 06, 2011 - 6:57PM
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Lets start the wild speculation on what we will see.
Whaddaya mean, start?
Another day, another three or four entries to my Ignore List.
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1 year ago ::
Dec 06, 2011 - 7:03PM
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I don't think WoTC would deal out the amount of errata needed to properly 'make it shine', it would invalidate far too many books.
Right now they're even scared to fix relatively easy to fix things that have been plagueing this edition from day 1. Instead they just make feats, and I dont even mean just expertise.
Yeah, but thats the point.
If 4e players are actually talking about 5e, and replacing 4e, then its time to stop being shy about errata.
You could even have your cake and eat it too.
You could do all of the errata for 4e online, digitally thru DDI, only for those gamers who want it. Then, when the time comes, this erratad version of 4e can actually become the hardcopies that you market as “5e”.
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