Penny Arcade Podcast with Mike Mearls

vagabundo · Aug 8, 2012

Very enjoyable 'cast. Why did they have to chop them up? Just dump the whole thing, don't string it out.

DEFCON 1 · Aug 8, 2012

Maxboy said:
Can i have a Citation for this, or is this you guessing

He's mentioned it several times.

Here is the Dark Sun podcast from the WotC website.

And here is the Penny Arcade Television episode about D&D where Mike also mentions it.

wedgeski · Aug 9, 2012

Iosue said:
Actually, fuzzlewump was spot on with Mike/Gabe. His big question was "Why do I need a new edition?"

Yup, having listened to it, he was surprisingly defensive about 4E given that he stopped playing it a while back. Mearls' answer was nice and blunt: if you still love 4E, much as I'd like you to buy all our new books, you don't need a new edition.

Iosue · Aug 9, 2012

wedgeski said:
Yup, having listened to it, he was surprisingly defensive about 4E given that he stopped playing it a while back. Mearls' answer was nice and blunt: if you still love 4E, much as I'd like you to buy all our new books, you don't need a new edition.

I don't think he ever stopped playing it. His long-running campaign stalled at 20th level, and he was burned out on that. Not surprising since WotC never did come out with a DMG covering Epic play. But he was still playing in Jerry's Dark Sun game, and I imagine still playing in lower-level games.

Szatany · Aug 9, 2012

Where are parts 2, 3, and 4? I want to hear them very much.

GX.Sigma · Aug 9, 2012

Szatany said:
Where are parts 2, 3, and 4? I want to hear them very much.

Apparently they'll come out weekly, leading up to the celebrity game at PAX.

Jack99 · Aug 9, 2012

GX.Sigma said:
Apparently they'll come out weekly, leading up to the celebrity game at PAX.

Yep, the next 3 mondays.

atgeirr · Aug 10, 2012

Mustrum_Ridcully said:
Wand of Vigor was even better, IIIRC. But that spell came so late to the game that I mostly remember the CLW Wands.

We also had lots of CLW wands in 3rd edition. In 2nd edition we house-ruled that the cleric could spontaneously convert spell levels to curing, at a rate of 1d6 per spell level used. I imagine that house rule variants like this were fairly common, which lead to being a core rule in 3rd edition.

Players are always going to wish for more healing. In 4th we keep pining for surgeless healing...

GX.Sigma · Aug 13, 2012

2nd one is up.

Krahulik's ignorance of the word "nock" is irritating.

Mention of setting-specific deity-specific domains is exactly what I wanted to hear.

Possible interrupted mention of make-your-own domains is intriguing.

I keep agreeing with everything Mearls says.

It's weird hearing such an interesting conversation going on and being unable to join in.