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

[thecasualoblivion]

I continue to be most amused by people holding their breath for the arrival of 5E, expecting it to be their savior as opposed to continuing the direction laid out by 4E and Essentials.

I wonder what the response of the current 5E theorists would be if when 5E is announced there is no significant change in course.

 

[thecasualoblivion]

[MENTION=232]Crothian[/MENTION] , An honest question, please take at face value even if your answer is simple:

Why will you not reveal the source?

This was said in the thread in the 4E section, and included is my response:

Said source is a long-time industry veteran who works for a 3rd party company.

All I can do is confirm that the rumor is out there. I don't know the validity of it. The tone of the new product seminar suggests that 5e is not in the works, but one never knows.

A long-time industry veteran who works for a 3rd party company sounds like somebody who could get caught up in the same hysteria that regular forum posters can be subject to.

 

[Crothian]

[MENTION=232]
Why will you not reveal the source?

It's not my place and voicing the name is just going to fan flames. They want to remain anonymous and Morrus also doesn't seem to want to name names. It's not my job to out people who don't want to be outed.

 

[El Mahdi]

I continue to be most amused by people holding their breath for the arrival of 5E, expecting it to be their savior as opposed to continuing the direction laid out by 4E and Essentials.

I wonder what the response of the current 5E theorists would be if when 5E is announced there is no significant change in course.

I would have posted a response to this but I'm too busy holding my...(*thump*)...

 

[delericho]

I wonder what the response of the current 5E theorists would be if when 5E is announced there is no significant change in course.

Well, in my case I've decided that 5e is WotC's one and only chance to win me back as a customer. Since the end of SWSE, I haven't bought anything from them, and I don't intend to do so until 5e. (And even that isn't guaranteed - this is the first edition in 23 years and counting that I won't buy until I've thoroughly checked it out first.)

If 5e doesn't win me back (making significant changes in the process), then I won't even look at 6e. I'll be done.

(And so, although I said I was kinda hoping for the announcement of 5e, I'm much prefer they took their time and got it 'right' rather than did it soon.)

 

[I'm A Banana]

I wonder what the response of the current 5E theorists would be if when 5E is announced there is no significant change in course.

All of mearls's talk about dials leaves me pretty confident that 4e is at least one example of certain points on the dial. It's a good example of complex combat, simple...everything else. That's great for some people, but not for everyone.

A 5e that goes the direction mearls is rambling on about wouldn't necessarily ditch 4e ideals, it would, instead, place them in context as being one example of what the rules could do. Perhaps the core book would include other examples, from 1e down through 3e, and even new examples, of how things can be done.

So I don't imagine 5e as a "change in course," exactly, if they follow mearls's ideas. Rather, it's a new context to find those in. Combats might be complex hour-long minis-based power-card fests, or they might be quick opposed d20 rolls, or they might be several steps in between.

 

[DEFCON 1]

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.

Only one attribute - your Stat. All rolls will be handled by adding your Stat to a D20 roll. Each level your Stat increases by one.

So, this would be the Monostat system?

I can state right here and now with 100% accuracy that I would never, EVER be able to get wife to play the Monostat 7 edition of D&D.

 

[thecasualoblivion]

They're talking about modularity and flexibility, but that doesn't mean it will happen. They said at Gencon, they're doing these articles for feedback, and who is to say the feedback they are getting isn't negative?

Some people seem to have this grand hope that the next edition will come swiftly and correct perceived "errors" with 4E. I'm curious to see what happens if 5E ends up being more of the same, or a change even further away from what people holding their breath in hopes of being "saved" by 5E seem to want.

 

[Matt James]

I enjoy 4e.

 

[Gundark]

Of course, an intended 5E-related announcement could have simply been, "Get a grip people - there is no 5E yet. Now go buy any of our fine products that are still in print."

Then again, didn't they do that before? Announce that there are no alien mind control lasers, and then reveal that there ARE?

They DID say that they weren't annoucing 5e if you listen to the new product seminar.