How about a 5E forum?

[Mercurius]

5E threads have become ubiquitous with EN World. Rather than spread them throughout the General, Industry, and 4E forums, why not give the topic its own holding cell?

It might be a good way to pave the road for EN World being The Place for all 5E news.

It would also kill two birds with one stone: Give the folks tired of 5E speculation a break, and give the lovers of 5E speculation a place to go wild.

 

[Umbran]

Even if they seem ubiquitous, there aren't actually all that many of them.

If you take a topic of conversation out of the general flow, so that folks have to go someplace extra in order to see it, traffic on that topic tends to decrease. So, we tend not to create entirely new forums until a topic has been shown to get so much interest that it can't be killed off by such a move.

 

[Mercurius]

OK, thanks. However, I don't think you need to worry about that particular topic being killed off by any means!

 

[Pentius]

I am in agreement with Mercurius. Give us who are tired of 5e rumors a break. Take the 5e threads away from the places I check for interesting, semi-rational discussion.

Make general once again be a place for non-edition based threads.

 

[Piratecat]

Sadly (or not, depending on your viewpoint), they aren't really rumors. Monte's working on 5e. That said, we likely won't create a 5e forum until the game is actually announced (or we get annoyed by the number of threads!)

Either way, thanks for the feedback.

 

[Pentius]

Sadly (or not, depending on your viewpoint), they aren't really rumors. Monte's working on 5e. That said, we likely won't create a 5e forum until the game is actually announced (or we get annoyed by the number of threads!)

Either way, thanks for the feedback.

I have to disagree with you here. We have no, I repeat, NO concrete evidence Monte or any part of WotC is actively working on 5e. Anything to the contrary is mere speculation and heresay. It doesn't even matter if he really IS working on 5e, we have nothing BUT rumors.

 

[Umbran]

We have no, I repeat, NO concrete evidence Monte or any part of WotC is actively working on 5e.

What do you call "concrete evidence"? If you only accept announcement by WotC as "concrete", well, then, no we don't have it. I, personally, have seen public quotes from industry folks (like, say, Margaret Weis) that are concrete enough for me.

You don't bring on a big name like Monte for just day-to-day work on a reduced supplement schedule. Whether what he's working on is "5e" may be up in the air, but I think the idea that WotC has something roughly as big in the development pipeline is pretty much inescapable at this point. Think of "5e" as the working title for that major project.

 

[LightPhoenix]

Sadly (or not, depending on your viewpoint), they aren't really rumors. Monte's working on 5e. That said, we likely won't create a 5e forum until the game is actually announced (or we get annoyed by the
number of threads!)

In which case, these threads really don't belong in the 4E Discussion board, since they are not about 4E. Perhaps they should be moved to General?

 

[Relique du Madde]

If it don't exist yet (even as a product announcement) then it doesn't need a separate forum.

Also those speculation threads get annoying.

 

[Umbran]

Also those speculation threads get annoying.

Need we remind you that speculation is at least half of what Eric Noah's site was based on?