D&D 5E cancelled 5e announcement at Gencon??? Anyone know anything about this?

[Argyle King]

Perhaps the 5E related announcement was going to be that there was no 5E planned right now. It was then cancelled because word was passed down that it was secretly in the works.



On a more serious note, I do look for D&D and Magic to move closer together in design and game style. The new minis game has a bit of MtG influence (in my opinion.) I wouldn't be surprised if some of the concepts in Gamma World were tests of 5E concepts and involving cards in D&D more.

 

[jaerdaph]

And so can your neighbors! So how would you make a Will save on Wii D&D? Knit your brows together really hard?

It's WotC and Hasbro. The controller will probably look like this:

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

So will 5e be available for Playstation 3, Wii, *and* XBox 360?

Certainly not iPhone/iPad. Those things are a fad, you can tell because if they weren't a fad WotC would target those devices with . . . something!

 

[Bullgrit]

Sorry, no fifth edition.

No sixth edition either

We have decided to skip directly to D&D 7th Edition because it will be that much more awesome than that tiresome 4e or that horrible 3.5 that we used to produce.

Bullgrit

 

[Matt James]

Seems like an excellent way to drum up activity.

 

[Mournblade94]

TANGENT:
I find these assertions pretty well divorced from reality. At best, the cynicism dial is turned to 11. Slamming the totality of the private sector is absurd. Business plans change, executive management changes, markets change. Just because something changes doesn't mean that the original statement wasn't truthful when it was made.

Your second paragraph is a bit more reasonable, but even it is a back-handed assertion - or at best laced with cynicism.

The kind of absurdity you stated above would be comparable to me assuming that you'd have to be making that claim while safely sequestered in the halls of academia or government.... (And many would claim that if that were true, the whole "divorced from reality" thing becomes an understandable event. )

End-of-tangent.

Back to the topic at hand:While I'm no fan of 4e nor of WotC's current business model, I don't think they're outright lying to their customers. The rumor seems baseless. Even if it were true, IF WotC is experiencing tough economic circumstances and D&D isn't performing as hoped/expected, they'd be stupid (and I'd say irresponsible) not to modify their business plan, even if that meant it invalidated statements made in prior years. After all, those faceless corporate lemmings are employees that have lives, families, & bills to pay. Presumably, as gamers and as decent human beings, we'd like to see them gainfully employed....

....even if they're working for one of those lying, stealing, cheating, #$#%#%#$#%@#%#% corporations.

How ever did you develop that tangent? Based on the post you quoted, nothing follows logic. Where did you pull the tangent from?

Somehow this was criticism on the private sector? Absurd.

 

[Mournblade94]

Perhaps the 5E related announcement was going to be that there was no 5E planned right now. It was then cancelled because word was passed down that it was secretly in the works.



On a more serious note, I do look for D&D and Magic to move closer together in design and game style. The new minis game has a bit of MtG influence (in my opinion.) I wouldn't be surprised if some of the concepts in Gamma World were tests of 5E concepts and involving cards in D&D more.

Do we have enough information on the new minis game to claim that there is a MtG influence?

What information are you extropolating that from?

 

[Mournblade94]

It's WotC and Hasbro. The controller will probably look like this:

GEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZ! By the gods you went THERE!!!!!!

 

[Kobold Boots]

How ever did you develop that tangent? Based on the post you quoted, nothing follows logic. Where did you pull the tangent from?

Somehow this was criticism on the private sector? Absurd.

Eh, I'm chalking it up to the poster having a bad day at work and assuming that I'm unschooled in the way of business or needing of a lecture on the definition of truth simply because I'm posting on ENWorld. If he wants to turn it into whatever he needed to say to blow off some steam that's fine.

I've had some bad days too. No harm, no foul.

 

[Kobold Boots]

Do we have enough information on the new minis game to claim that there is a MtG influence?

What information are you extropolating that from?

I believe he's speculating based on some content in one of my previous posts, but he could be coming to the same conclusion I did, without any help.

The foundational clues were:
1. Moving to a non-random mini line ala Warhammer.
2. More fortune cards and effects cards coming out in new sets that are playable by or status effecting players.
3. The character sheets in 4e already support card based play.

KB