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

[Shemeska]

Please. Like youall were using guardinals and settings your campaigns in bytopia. To say nothing of the plane of vaccum. Spare me the flimsy excuses for unjustified rage.

Heh. My campaign at the time had a guardinal descended aasimar PC and one guardinal PC (lupinal), and a number of NPCs. We spent two campaign arcs in Elysium, though only some brief appearances in Bytopia. However we spent a campaign arc in Vaccuum, which contrary to WotC was quite the opposite of the "antithesis of fun" in our experience.

You don't even need the great wheel for planescape. If anything, 4e gives you more and better places to actually play in when you're not in sigil.

You're welcome to your opinion, but by contrast I've found WotC's 4e planar material largely uninspiring except when it was covering some of the locations with a history in prior D&D material, and as a whole I found much of it lacked the depth and sense of history that inspired and continues to inspire me when I look back at some of that 2e (and some bits of 3e) material on the planes.

They went way too far IMO in the direction of 'everything must be an adventure location for PCs to kill evil things and there's no need for boring depth and world detail beyond that because D&D isn't about traipsing through faerie rings and interacting with the little people'. But tastes may vary, and I'm glad that you've found something that fits your style.

 

[Morrus]

Yikes, didn't realise there'd be a thread this long about it.

I myself don't know what to make of it; as I tweeted, I was unable to verify it, and it kinda came out of the blue. I certainly trust the person who told me to not be a spreader of random gossip; however, I don't know whether that person's information is correct or not, or whether something got twisted somewhere along the way. It all seems very unlikely to me, but I figured I'd pass it along anyway.

Time will tell, I guess. I wouldn't be confident one way or the other to place a bet.

 

[Keefe the Thief]

But if you don't see anything wrong with that podcast, I really have nothing else to say.

I hope you this doesn't sound too patronizing, Sammael, but i'll take this part of your post with a grain of salt.

Yikes, didn't realise there'd be a thread this long about it.

I myself don't know what to make of it; as I tweeted, I was unable to verify it, and it kinda came out of the blue. I certainly trust the person who told me to not be a spreader of random gossip; however, I don't know whether that person's information is correct or not, or whether something got twisted somewhere along the way. It all seems very unlikely to me, but I figured I'd pass it along anyway.

Time will tell, I guess. I wouldn't be confident one way or the other to place a bet.

I think it was right to pass the information along, but, you know... I never heard somebody on the internet say "i heard this rumor i HAVE to tell you about, and the source is a lying bag of $%&!" Rumors are only passed along when we trust the source at least somewhat, and yet still most of the turn out to be untrue (or at least misunderstood).

 

[Andor]

The truth is that even if 5e came out as a fully interactive holodeck edition complete with blackjack and tiefling hookers, somebody would still be complaining that actually swinging a sword is too much work and they should have gone for a matrix-style pod approach. And besides, Drizz'it gave them a wedgie.

 

[jaerdaph]

The truth is that even if 5e came out as a fully interactive holodeck edition complete with blackjack and tiefling hookers, somebody would still be complaining that actually swinging a sword is too much work and they should have gone for a matrix-style pod approach. And besides, Drizz'it gave them a wedgie.

"My tiefling hooker plays like a board game..."

 

[Pilgrim]

I heard a rumor that WotC has actually already developed, announced and released D&D 5E.

It's just that any player who has played and enjoyed any edition prior, has become blinded by nerd rage at some point, and therefore can't see it.

 

[BryonD]

It had a vocal and committed minority of fans while everyone else either didn't care or thought it was a load of garbage. Not unlike Forgotten Realms to be honest.

That's funny. I can think of a certain edition that the same thing could be said about. But for some reason that same statement would suddenly be "hate".

 

[xechnao]

Yikes, didn't realise there'd be a thread this long about it.

I myself don't know what to make of it; as I tweeted, I was unable to verify it, and it kinda came out of the blue. I certainly trust the person who told me to not be a spreader of random gossip; however, I don't know whether that person's information is correct or not, or whether something got twisted somewhere along the way. It all seems very unlikely to me, but I figured I'd pass it along anyway.

Time will tell, I guess. I wouldn't be confident one way or the other to place a bet.

I dare pose the question, up to you to reply or not.
Was the source affiliated to Kobold Quarterly?

 

[Mercurius]

He's not going to share his source, xechnao, nor should he. Let's not tempt Morrus to compromise his integrity by continuing to fish for a name.

 

[Jack99]

Heh. My campaign at the time had a guardinal descended aasimar PC and one guardinal PC (lupinal), and a number of NPCs. We spent two campaign arcs in Elysium, though only some brief appearances in Bytopia. However we spent a campaign arc in Vaccuum, which contrary to WotC was quite the opposite of the "antithesis of fun" in our experience.

While I might consider believing you, given your history with Planescape, I am fairly certain you represent an extremely small part of the D&D community. You are certainly the first I have heard of that has had a campaign (arc) in PoV.

You're welcome to your opinion, but by contrast I've found WotC's 4e planar material largely uninspiring except when it was covering some of the locations with a history in prior D&D material, and as a whole I found much of it lacked the depth and sense of history that inspired and continues to inspire me when I look back at some of that 2e (and some bits of 3e) material on the planes.

They went way too far IMO in the direction of 'everything must be an adventure location for PCs to kill evil things and there's no need for boring depth and world detail beyond that because D&D isn't about traipsing through faerie rings and interacting with the little people'. But tastes may vary, and I'm glad that you've found something that fits your style.

Considering you write planar stuff for the competition...