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<blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 5793999" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><span style="font-size: 12px">Today is the first day of </span><a href="http://www.baldmangames.com/ddxpfp/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12px">D&D Experience</span></a><span style="font-size: 12px"> in Forte Wayne. The convention lasts four days, and is sponsored and attended by WotC.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">This year there will be public (but under NDA) playtests of the next iteration of D&D, as well as seminars, panels, and Q&A sessions. With luck, there will be plenty of juicy D&D Next scoops emerging from the convention - and if you're there and you have some information please don't hesitate to </span><span style="font-size: 12px">email me (<strong>morrus at hotmail dot com</strong>)</span><span style="font-size: 12px"> so that I can share it with the rest of us who were unable to attend.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">Today's main seminar is <strong><em>Charting the Course: An Edition for all Editions</em></strong> - "Join Mike Mearls, Monte Cook, and Jeremy Crawford as they discuss the origin for the idea to create an edition of <em>Dungeons & Dragons</em> that encompasses all previous editions. The designers discuss the challenges in creating compatibility and balance, as well as the exciting possibilities such a system creates. Seminar to be followed by a Q&A session."</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">The playtest is called <em><strong>Caves of Chaos</strong></em>: "Join the first public playtest of the next iteration of the <em>Dungeons & Dragons</em> roleplaying game. The playtest offers players the chance to run pre-generated 1st-level characters through the Caves of Chaos, a four-hour D&D adventure. Wizards of the Coast staff will be running several tables each day. As part of the playtest, participants must sign a special non-dislcosure agreement for playtesters." </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>Adventure Description</strong>: <em>For years, Castellan Keep has stood on civilization’s frontier, commanding a grand view of that dismal realm known as the Borderlands. A forlorn place, rife with monsters and terrors beyond imagining, adventurers have used this fort to seek glory and plunder in this dangerous realm, to unearth fabulous treasures and destroy foul monsters. Of all the haunts found here, none equal the Caves of Chaos in both danger and the promise of reward. Rumors abound of the wicked humanoids, the sinister monsters, and the dark priests that run amok in this dungeon. Only the most cunning and bold adventurers dare to face the dreaded caverns. Do you have what it takes to survive the Caves of Chaos? </em></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">If I hear anything, I'll update this post! All updates below.</span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 12px"><img src="https://p.twimg.com/AkF4TRRCAAI9ytb.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><em>A game of D&D Next hosted by Alphastream. The group is battling a room full of orcs. From </em><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/gregbilsland/status/162543334005538816/photo/1" target="_blank"><em>Twitter</em></a><em>.</em></p><p></p><p style="text-align: center"><em><img src="http://p.twimg.com/AkGC2z4CAAE5fgN.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></em></p><p></p><p style="text-align: center"><em><img src="http://p.twimg.com/AkGTtsVCIAAd3Rd.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></em></p><p></p><p> </p><p style="text-align: center"> <img src="https://p.twimg.com/AkG_tEyCQAEqAsT.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>SEMINAR: <em>Charting the Course: An Edition for all Editions</em></strong> </span></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 12px"><a href="http://www.wizards.com/DnD/Article.aspx?x=dnd%2F4news%2Fdndxpseminar" target="_blank">WotC Live Chat Coverage</a></span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 12px">Follow <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23dndNext" target="_blank">#dndnext hashtag </a>on Twitter</span></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 12px">Live tweets from </span><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/criticalhits" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12px">Critical Hits</span></a></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 12px">Live tweets from </span><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/geeksdreamgirl" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12px">E. Foley</span></a></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 12px">Live tweets from </span><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/Rolling20s" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12px">Rolling20s</span></a></p> </li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 12px"><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/news/317318-seminar-transcript-charting-course-edition-all-editions.html" target="_blank">Transcript of the seminar</a></span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: left"><a href="http://trollishdelver.blogspot.com/2012/01/what-we-learnt-from-first-d-next.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12px">Trollish Delver: What we learnt from the first D&D Next seminar</span></a><span style="font-size: 12px"> - an excellent summary article.</span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg734/scaled.php?tn=0&server=734&filename=niaxi.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=640" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><em>Picture from <a href="http://yfrog.com/keniaxij" target="_blank">Twitter</a>: Monte Cook, Mike Mearls, Jeremy Crawford</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Morrus, post: 5793999, member: 1"] [SIZE=3]Today is the first day of [/SIZE][URL="http://www.baldmangames.com/ddxpfp/"][SIZE=3]D&D Experience[/SIZE][/URL][SIZE=3] in Forte Wayne. The convention lasts four days, and is sponsored and attended by WotC.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]This year there will be public (but under NDA) playtests of the next iteration of D&D, as well as seminars, panels, and Q&A sessions. With luck, there will be plenty of juicy D&D Next scoops emerging from the convention - and if you're there and you have some information please don't hesitate to [/SIZE][SIZE=3]email me ([B]morrus at hotmail dot com[/B])[/SIZE][SIZE=3] so that I can share it with the rest of us who were unable to attend.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]Today's main seminar is [B][I]Charting the Course: An Edition for all Editions[/I][/B] - "Join Mike Mearls, Monte Cook, and Jeremy Crawford as they discuss the origin for the idea to create an edition of [I]Dungeons & Dragons[/I] that encompasses all previous editions. The designers discuss the challenges in creating compatibility and balance, as well as the exciting possibilities such a system creates. Seminar to be followed by a Q&A session."[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]The playtest is called [I][B]Caves of Chaos[/B][/I]: "Join the first public playtest of the next iteration of the [I]Dungeons & Dragons[/I] roleplaying game. The playtest offers players the chance to run pre-generated 1st-level characters through the Caves of Chaos, a four-hour D&D adventure. Wizards of the Coast staff will be running several tables each day. As part of the playtest, participants must sign a special non-dislcosure agreement for playtesters." [/SIZE] [SIZE=3][B]Adventure Description[/B]: [I]For years, Castellan Keep has stood on civilization’s frontier, commanding a grand view of that dismal realm known as the Borderlands. A forlorn place, rife with monsters and terrors beyond imagining, adventurers have used this fort to seek glory and plunder in this dangerous realm, to unearth fabulous treasures and destroy foul monsters. Of all the haunts found here, none equal the Caves of Chaos in both danger and the promise of reward. Rumors abound of the wicked humanoids, the sinister monsters, and the dark priests that run amok in this dungeon. Only the most cunning and bold adventurers dare to face the dreaded caverns. Do you have what it takes to survive the Caves of Chaos? [/I][/SIZE] [SIZE=3]If I hear anything, I'll update this post! All updates below.[/SIZE] [CENTER][SIZE=3][IMG]https://p.twimg.com/AkF4TRRCAAI9ytb.jpg[/IMG][/SIZE] [I]A game of D&D Next hosted by Alphastream. The group is battling a room full of orcs. From [/I][URL="https://twitter.com/#!/gregbilsland/status/162543334005538816/photo/1"][I]Twitter[/I][/URL][I].[/I][/CENTER] [CENTER][I][IMG]http://p.twimg.com/AkGC2z4CAAE5fgN.jpg[/IMG][/I][/CENTER] [CENTER][I][IMG]http://p.twimg.com/AkGTtsVCIAAd3Rd.jpg[/IMG][/I][/CENTER] [CENTER] [img]https://p.twimg.com/AkG_tEyCQAEqAsT.jpg[/img][/CENTER] [SIZE=3][B]SEMINAR: [I]Charting the Course: An Edition for all Editions[/I][/B] [/SIZE] [LIST] [*][LEFT][SIZE=3][URL="http://www.wizards.com/DnD/Article.aspx?x=dnd%2F4news%2Fdndxpseminar"]WotC Live Chat Coverage[/URL][/SIZE][/LEFT] [*][LEFT][SIZE=3]Follow [URL="https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23dndNext"]#dndnext hashtag [/URL]on Twitter[/SIZE][/LEFT] [LIST] [*][LEFT][SIZE=3]Live tweets from [/SIZE][URL="https://twitter.com/#!/criticalhits"][SIZE=3]Critical Hits[/SIZE][/URL][/LEFT] [*][LEFT][SIZE=3]Live tweets from [/SIZE][URL="https://twitter.com/#!/geeksdreamgirl"][SIZE=3]E. Foley[/SIZE][/URL][/LEFT] [*][LEFT][SIZE=3]Live tweets from [/SIZE][URL="https://twitter.com/#!/Rolling20s"][SIZE=3]Rolling20s[/SIZE][/URL][/LEFT] [/LIST] [*][LEFT][SIZE=3][URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/news/317318-seminar-transcript-charting-course-edition-all-editions.html"]Transcript of the seminar[/URL][/SIZE][/LEFT] [*][LEFT][URL="http://trollishdelver.blogspot.com/2012/01/what-we-learnt-from-first-d-next.html"][SIZE=3]Trollish Delver: What we learnt from the first D&D Next seminar[/SIZE][/URL][SIZE=3] - an excellent summary article.[/SIZE][/LEFT] [/LIST][CENTER][IMG]http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg734/scaled.php?tn=0&server=734&filename=niaxi.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=640[/IMG] [I]Picture from [URL="http://yfrog.com/keniaxij"]Twitter[/URL]: Monte Cook, Mike Mearls, Jeremy Crawford[/I][/CENTER] [/QUOTE]
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