D&D 5E Chris Cocks WotC CEO interviewed by RollingStone

[Parmandur]

Intriguing. I'd be pretty excited different they did a D&D cartoon/toy commercial.

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[robus]

Actually I think a “perfect” rule set is in opposition of a good one. I think the success of 5e is some proof of that.

Agreed. But I do think that D&D could do a lot to make its rules easier to understand. A lot of things are buried under a lot of words

So perhaps the perfect presentation of the good rule set is still some way off?

 

[abirdcall]

Agreed. But I do think that D&D could do a lot to make its rules easier to understand. A lot of things are buried under a lot of words

So perhaps the perfect presentation of the good rule set is still some way off?

I did read somewhere that Mike Mearls (I think) said that a new edition would just be building upon this one. I am inferring that to mean something like 3.5 but with more backwards compatibility.

I wouldn't mind an update every 10 years or so.

 

[robus]

I did read somewhere that Mike Mearls (I think) said that a new edition would just be building upon this one. I am inferring that to mean something like 3.5 but with more backwards compatibility.

I wouldn't mind an update every 10 years or so.

Yeah - I think a refinement edition would be totally cool. Smoothing out some of the few remaining rough edges (just thinking of some of the endless debates we've had on here about rules interpretation... )

 

[Corpsetaker]

We don't need a new edition anytime soon, we just need more products that aren't awful adventures. Regional sourcebooks for current FR would be nice.

 

[Bacon Bits]

Regional sourcebooks for current FR would be nice.

I think we're far more likely to see a new edition before we see more regional sourcebooks for FR. The 3.0/3.5 books are still all out there, and they're very detailed. "We need an update for the past 20 in-setting years!" is pretty weak reasoning.

 

[Parmandur]

We don't need a new edition anytime soon, we just need more products that aren't awful adventures. Regional sourcebooks for current FR would be nice.

They are doing regional sourcebooks...as adventure books. They've made it pretty clear that strategy has worked, and they will continue to double down on it.

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[gyor]

We don't need a new edition anytime soon, we just need more products that aren't awful adventures. Regional sourcebooks for current FR would be nice.

That and a FRCG, plus the novels line back.

 

[gyor]

They are doing regional sourcebooks...as adventure books. They've made it pretty clear that strategy has worked, and they will continue to double down on it.

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I think regional books refer more to the SCAG, but for regions outside the Swordcoast region, like the Old Empires, the Lands of Intrigue, the Heartlands, The Cold Lands, the Utter East, Kara Tur, Zakhara, the Shining South, Chult (no ToA does not count, it lacks indepth look, and doesn't include Samarach and Thindol, etc...) etc..., it's a huge missed opportunity.

 

[Demetrios1453]

I think we're far more likely to see a new edition before we see more regional sourcebooks for FR. The 3.0/3.5 books are still all out there, and they're very detailed. "We need an update for the past 20 in-setting years!" is pretty weak reasoning.

120 years, not 20. The last 3.x books were set c. 1375 DR, and the current adventures in the setting are set c. 1490 DR. Over a century of time and two massive cataclysms mean a good amount of geographic change (even if the second catastrophe mostly reversed the first) and a lot of dead NPCs in the interim. Granted, I don't think we need to go all in-depth again, as, like you said, the 2e and 3.x e descriptions are still reasonably valid, but an overview of what has changed, and who our important replacement NPCs are would be nice. Hopefully we'll just continue to get the setting updated by adventures as we have been at the very least...