DDXP Begins Today!

Agamon · Jan 26, 2012

IronWolf said:
This has been one of my curiosities. Does this new system mean I can just grab an old 1E module and run it with no conversion? Maybe we'll find out in the near future!

No conversion would be odd. I'd put money on simple conversion, though.

OchreJelly · Jan 26, 2012

Can't it be just like the movies where someone with the right software can zoom in on the character sheets and "enhance" to get a clean rendering?

DM Howard · Jan 26, 2012

Exciting!

IronWolf · Jan 26, 2012

Agamon said:
No conversion would be odd. I'd put money on simple conversion, though.

Simple would be cool too.

kitsune9 · Jan 26, 2012

OchreJelly said:
Can't it be just like the movies where someone with the right software can zoom in on the character sheets and "enhance" to get a clean rendering?

I was thinking the same thing. Where's the forensic FBI lab when you need one?

Jack99 · Jan 26, 2012

filthgrinder said:
To actually play in the D&D:Next games you have to sign an NDA. The rest of DDXP and all the seminars do not require the NDA. I doubt we'll be seeing a character sheet soon.

Well, maybe WotC will show off some stuff. NDA might just be a way to control the info, not to eliminate it.

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bhandelman · Jan 26, 2012

Agamon said:
No conversion would be odd. I'd put money on simple conversion, though.

This would be perfect, maybe a conversion guide for each edition to the new one.

Hopefully the NDA is dropped towards the end of the week. Pretty soon enough people will have played it won't help, but I can understand if they want to limit information while the con is still going.

Khaalis · Jan 26, 2012

Just a few thoughts from looking at the image (not a high res shot, I cant clean it up much).

Did they simplify initiative or are the tent cards just a DM tool to simplify initiative order?

The golden sheets don't appear to be character sheets in the classic sense. The text appears to be more block text than character sheet stats. Either that means its fluff/background write-ups, or the sheets are set up in such a way as each ability (skill, power, class feature etc.) has a "stat line" and a paragraph of text to go with it (which just seems a lot more complicated than a basic PC sheet). Also, it looks like there may be a white "PC sheet" with the actual stats hidden from the camera. You can see it peaking out from under "initiative #2"'s gold sheet (and to a lesser extent #1's also). If true, then white and gold sheets in the middle of the table were PC #6 (unused at this table) and is the gold cover sheet with character description text, and a PC sheet turned upside down so as not to be included in the photo?

Windjammer · Jan 26, 2012

Jack Daniel said:
No battlemat...

That was a bit premature on your part.

Here's "Another picture from the <s class="hash">#</s>dndnext playtest." posted 55 minutes ago:

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filthgrinder · Jan 26, 2012

Jack99 said:
Well, maybe WotC will show off some stuff. NDA might just be a way to control the info, not to eliminate it.

Possible, and I'd love to see it. However, I'd imagine they'll keep a lot of stuff "under wraps" so that the DDXP attendees get that special feeling of having inside information. So if WotC waits a couple of weeks to release information, the attendees get a chance to blog and tweet in nonNDA breaking generics, with the warm fuzzies. Making sure the community has warm fuzzies about D&D Next is a big deal. In order to do that, they need to make sure the thought leaders and strong voices in the community are attended. Giving them exclusive sneak peeks, and inside information are ways to accomplish those goals.

I just hope they run these games at PAX:East so I can play!

Anyways, I'd love for them to video podcast a game.