Future of D&D Keynote Speech [UPDATE - with video!]

[delericho]

Damn the feed is unwatchable for me. Keeps stopping and starting..

I had something similar. What worked for me was to pause it for a couple of minutes to let it buffer up.

At least, I think that's what worked - it could just be a coincidence!

 

[Scribble]

I wouldn't be surprised if they went with some sort of ereader format (kindle, nook, or both) since they seem to be having good luck with that in their fiction department.

But maybe they'd go with pdfs... Maybe they're really in "gain back some good will" mode so they'd go with whatever the crowd wants.

 

[Phaezen]

From Mike Mearls' twitter feed the electronic releases are not the scanned pdfs they had for sale a couple of years ago

 

[JeffB]

From Mike Mearls' twitter feed the electronic releases are not the scanned pdfs they had for sale a couple of years ago

That is good news.Most of the old TSR item scans I bought were horrendous.

 

[GeorgeFields]

That is good news.Most of the old TSR item scans I bought were horrendous.

Agreed.

If they're going to reformat them, how much more work is required to go ahead and reformat them into both pdf and e-reader format? I'm asking as I have no idea.

 

[Vyvyan Basterd]

I can't watch the video right now, but I'm curious. Is the playtest intended to be a 2-year process from the point they started playtesting internally or when we started playtesting publicly?

 

[Mercurius]

I'm still struggling with images of Peter Adkison-led orgies.

 

[Ratenef]

Just watched the 'keynote' and thought the it was rather informative and promising.

However, I couldn't help but notice the entire thing was scripted and read from a teleprompter (keep watching Ed's eyes when he speaks). Which means that corporate/legal was seriously controlling what was said during the 'keynote'.

I will say they may have just won me back into the novels. And despite my vitriol for 4th edition, perhaps DnD Next might be a good change for DnD (every odd version seems to be the best)

 

[Brian Gibbons]

I'm also curious as to when the two-year playtest timespan begins and ends. "From when we started talking about this in-house until the day the book hits the streets" is different from "from when we released the first public playtest until the day we declare the playtest over and start making the final tweaks".

Not having watched the full video, do they actually come right out and say, "D&D Next isn't going to be released until 2014"?

 

[Jupp]

I can't watch the video right now, but I'm curious. Is the playtest intended to be a 2-year process from the point they started playtesting internally or when we started playtesting publicly?

From how I understood it from the video the two years countdown has started more or less with the first public testing. Though it was not entirely clear in the vid (or me English language check failed me miserably). The part about that in the video is around 1:04:40