D&D 5E Mearls and Thompson (and Crawford) at DigiPen (video)

[Iosue]

I did a search, but I don't think these were ever discussed here. Mike Mearls and Rodney Thompson did a post-mortem on the 5th Edition design process at DigiPen Institute of Technology back in 2015. Some of the stuff is old hat by now, as information has trickled out over the years, but it's still an interesting look behind the scenes. One interesting tidbit was that there was a positive correlation between complexity of class and non-combat satisfaction, and a negative correlation between complexity of class and combat satisfaction. Good stuff!

[video=youtube;sJqQQ2r7O2w]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJqQQ2r7O2w[/video]
[video=youtube;Qg4rivkz7-k]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg4rivkz7-k[/video]
[video=youtube;8zNtyDD7SX4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zNtyDD7SX4[/video]
[video=youtube;BZJb9KTyIgk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZJb9KTyIgk[/video]
[video=youtube;sC15GbJuSFM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC15GbJuSFM[/video]
[video=youtube;WewDW5OdIOw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WewDW5OdIOw[/video]
[video=youtube;nZhs1wlx-9I]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZhs1wlx-9I[/video]

A week later, Mearls went back with Jeremy Crawford to talk about diversity in 5th Edition.

[video=youtube;SM3lPvuo0Es]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM3lPvuo0Es[/video]
[video=youtube;JVzfkn1DFDg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVzfkn1DFDg[/video]
[video=youtube;DyUuFwtcAls]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyUuFwtcAls[/video]
[video=youtube;h5ZjuY1KX9o]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5ZjuY1KX9o[/video]
[video=youtube;Vkh9dfRoLu4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkh9dfRoLu4[/video]
[video=youtube;jtcjvCw-LXo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtcjvCw-LXo[/video]

 

[Lanliss]

Good stuff. I did not watch all of the design videos, but I did watch the Diversity set. I would be very interested in seeing their "Art Bible", to see what kind of inspirations they had.

 

[THEMNGMNT]

This is great. Thank you for sharing. Have some XP!