Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Next
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
Twitch
YouTube
Facebook (EN Publishing)
Facebook (EN World)
Twitter
Instagram
TikTok
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
The
VOIDRUNNER'S CODEX
is coming! Explore new worlds, fight oppressive empires, fend off fearsome aliens, and wield deadly psionics with this comprehensive boxed set expansion for 5E and A5E!
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
First Footage of D&D Honor Among Thieves: Dungeons, Dragons, Teamwork, With Superhero Vibe
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8622726" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>I mean, that's a fair question - but D&D has always been trying very hard to prove that it can be!</p><p></p><p>More seriously the wild mish-mash of technologies and cultures and ideas in D&D tends to be anachronistic within any given setting, so being better or worse of course. It doesn't really matter usually because D&D doesn't try to present itself as "realistic".</p><p></p><p>Yup.</p><p></p><p>Essentially you're likely to end up with something like Earthdawn, because that's basically what Earthdawn did, which was say:</p><p></p><p>A) How can we make D&D "make sense" in terms of things like levels, monsters being everywhere, tons of magic, dungeons existing and so on. Levels become an actual thing (I forget what they're called), that your character performs a ritual to obtain, for example, so you can actually refer to them in-game.</p><p></p><p>and</p><p></p><p>B) How can we make D&D more playable and give everyone more and more fun stuff to do.</p><p></p><p>Earthdawn was, frankly, a massive success on a technical/conceptual level here (especially for 1993!), and actually I think if we'd had social media and so on back then, I think it would have been a massive financial success and been a huge hit for FASA, but as it was, coming at the dawn of the internet, a lot of people didn't even really understand what it was or why it was and it seemed like just higher-budget fantasy heartbreaker, and by the time it might have broken out of that FASA had fallen apart and its properties were being shuffled around and D&D was getting a new edition and so on. I remember when 4E came out people suddenly started talking about Earthdawn a lot, because 4E did a lot of the same things, had a lot of the same thinking, but in a more constrained way, and indeed for a long time there was a licensed "Earthdawn for 4E" setting thing planned, but I don't think it ever happened.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8622726, member: 18"] I mean, that's a fair question - but D&D has always been trying very hard to prove that it can be! More seriously the wild mish-mash of technologies and cultures and ideas in D&D tends to be anachronistic within any given setting, so being better or worse of course. It doesn't really matter usually because D&D doesn't try to present itself as "realistic". Yup. Essentially you're likely to end up with something like Earthdawn, because that's basically what Earthdawn did, which was say: A) How can we make D&D "make sense" in terms of things like levels, monsters being everywhere, tons of magic, dungeons existing and so on. Levels become an actual thing (I forget what they're called), that your character performs a ritual to obtain, for example, so you can actually refer to them in-game. and B) How can we make D&D more playable and give everyone more and more fun stuff to do. Earthdawn was, frankly, a massive success on a technical/conceptual level here (especially for 1993!), and actually I think if we'd had social media and so on back then, I think it would have been a massive financial success and been a huge hit for FASA, but as it was, coming at the dawn of the internet, a lot of people didn't even really understand what it was or why it was and it seemed like just higher-budget fantasy heartbreaker, and by the time it might have broken out of that FASA had fallen apart and its properties were being shuffled around and D&D was getting a new edition and so on. I remember when 4E came out people suddenly started talking about Earthdawn a lot, because 4E did a lot of the same things, had a lot of the same thinking, but in a more constrained way, and indeed for a long time there was a licensed "Earthdawn for 4E" setting thing planned, but I don't think it ever happened. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
First Footage of D&D Honor Among Thieves: Dungeons, Dragons, Teamwork, With Superhero Vibe
Top