Any news out of PAX East?

mkill · Apr 8, 2012

Thanks for the compilation. The info so far is still way too nebulous to say anything. Where are the playtest rules??

jbear · Apr 8, 2012

Just from reading this thread and what Mr Mearls said about short adventures my understanding is this: The core release will focus on short episodic adventures. Stringing these together will be fairly simple for an experienced DM right off the bat. They will extend this with support modules for more epic scope adventures and options for PC lairs/castles/followers etc.

As for the disappointment that there is no date announced for the open play test to begin, I'd be surprised if anything else were the case. Who really wants them to rush this? Why would you want them to chuck any old slop at us and say: test that. That would guarantee failure. They want to come up with something they are happy with and that they believe meets their goals. When it's ready they will open up the public playtest. We'll bash it to bits and with any luck at the end of it, we'll have a pretty cool game. Meanwhile, there are still plenty of cool games to play.

YRUSirius · Apr 8, 2012

Short basic games = more players.

-YRUSirius

Gundark · Apr 8, 2012

So the something awful leak was playtest 1.0 . I wonder if 4.0 is the version that we'll finally see?

kevtar · Apr 8, 2012

Gundark said:
So the something awful leak was playtest 1.0 . I wonder if 4.0 is the version that we'll finally see?

I was under the impression based on other comments from people in this forum currently playtesting that the information in the "something awful" thread was spurious at best.

TarionzCousin · Apr 8, 2012

gyor said:
Actually it was just the avenger as theme that was mentioned as a for example at DDXP. Indictations are that the assassin with be a core class, hence being refered to as rare class and not a theme.

It would be very funny to me if only 1 in 10,000 5E PHB's had the assassin class--and you had to own one of those books to be allowed to play the class.

gyor · Apr 8, 2012

TarionzCousin said:
It would be very funny to me if only 1 in 10,000 5E PHB's had the assassin class--and you had to own one of those books to be allowed to play the class.

Hahaha I certainly hope not, it'd be funny though.

Gundark · Apr 8, 2012

kevtar said:
I was under the impression based on other comments from people in this forum currently playtesting that the information in the "something awful" thread was spurious at best.

Possible... maybe I am getting my leaks mixed up. Anyhow wasn't the playtest at D&d xp version 1.0?