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

[Aberzanzorax]

I'm not Shemmy, but here's an old post that answers you.

Honestly it was some of the designer comments that got under my skin w/ regards to what 4e was all about. Two quotes or series of quotes come to mind.

"Of course, these planes don't hold a candle to 2E's hilarious Plane of Vacuum, which is truly the antithesis of fun.)" - Chris Perkins

And from the D&D Podcast #16

"Guardinals - Bullet in the Head." - Mike Mearls
"What's a guardinal???" - Dave Noonan
"They're outsiders from the plane of neutral good!" - James Wyatt
"There's a plane of neutral good? Which one was that again?" - Dave Noonan
"...Bytopia? Maybe?" - James Wyatt (giving the wrong answer, which apparently none of the other guys knew was wrong)
"I'm probably going to offend a bunch of Planescape fans, but Bytopia sounds like a place where you'd go to buy a gimmicky hamburger..."
*insert laughter and jokes cracked about the plane*

What's funny is that the page for the podcast actually went back and added a printed correction for them botching what the NG plane in the Great Wheel was, and what Bytopia was.

 

[billd91]

I'm not Shemmy, but here's an old post that answers you.

I don't think I'd have knocked them for guessing Bytopia (Twin Paradises), nor would I for guessing the Beastlands (Happy Hunting Grounds). Both are just one step away from Elysium and entirely reasonable guesses if you're no expert on the Great Wheel construction.

 

[dm4hire]

Another thought just occurred to me, what if WotC's plan was to pull a Classic Coke trick? 4e is the new Coke that has upset a lot of fans so they will suddenly return to Classic by re-releasing the more popular past edition. Or one could compare it to Slurm!!!

 

[Dark Mistress]

I listened to the new product seminar and I think that Mike Mearls really cares about D&D , I gotta say just listening to him being open about mistakes of the past has got me hopeful for the future. I actually think that he might be the guy to mend a lot of bridges.

You listened in person or is their a podcast or something of it to listen to? Just curious cause I would be interested in listening to it.

 

[delericho]

I listened to the new product seminar and I think that Mike Mearls really cares about D&D , I gotta say just listening to him being open about mistakes of the past has got me hopeful for the future. I actually think that he might be the guy to mend a lot of bridges.

Yes, I'm quietly optimistic about the future. The longer they leave 5e, the more optimistic I become. But I really don't want to get too hopeful - I was really optimistic about 4e once upon a time.

 

[Lanefan]

Some people seem to have this grand hope that the next edition will come swiftly and correct perceived "errors" with 4E.

And the errors with 3e, and with 2e...

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.

What happens? Disappointment, here.

Again.

Lan-"I live in hope, and sometimes it's a lonely place"-efan

 

[KJSEvans]

5E exists and it has a name - Advanced HackMaster. This should be the game of the future.

 

[Mournblade94]

I don't think I'd have knocked them for guessing Bytopia (Twin Paradises), nor would I for guessing the Beastlands (Happy Hunting Grounds). Both are just one step away from Elysium and entirely reasonable guesses if you're no expert on the Great Wheel construction.

Which each one of those people SHOULD have been an expert. They were paid game designers for the company that published planescape. It is certainly not obscure information for a major WOTC campaign setting.

 

[Sammael]

There is absolutely no way that Noonan and Wyatt didn't know what Bytopia was. Wyatt is credited as a designer in the 3E Manual of the Planes, and Noonan was its designer and editor.

There are several terms in the English language for that type of behavior, but I don't want to offend Eric's grandma.

 

[billd91]

Which each one of those people SHOULD have been an expert. They were paid game designers for the company that published planescape. It is certainly not obscure information for a major WOTC campaign setting.

It may not be obscure, but I'm sure it's not something they think about every day. Being able to look it up in the references they have around work when they really need to get it exactly right should be sufficient.