D&D 5E Mike Mearls is back on the D&D RPG Team

Three weeks ago, WotC's Jeremy Crawford told us that Mike Mearls was no longer working on the tabletop RPG, and hadn't since some time in 2019. Today, the (newish) D&D head Ray Winninger said on the company's Twitch livestream that Mearls is now back full-time on the tabletop game.

Mike Mearls is back full time on the RPG again. He was splitting his time working on some computer game stuff for us, but he’s back.

He still doesn't appear to be back on social media since his final tweet back in 2019.

 

[Giltonio_Santos]

They should just bring zeb cook and Jeff grubb back. They created the best settings and creative rules to use.

Hell, yeah!

If you're brining people back, go get Andy Collins.

Hell, no!

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

From Mike Mearls to Robocop, what a thread!

I'll buy that for a dollar!

 

[Umbran]

I'm feeling generous - you have 31...

Morrus may be being too amusing to make the point clear.

Your position comes off as a logically inconsistent rationalization. If "crime has been committed" is the only socially valid basis upon which complaint can be made, then you cannot complain, as the other complainers have not committed a crime.

So, make up your mind - is crime necessary? Whichever way you answer, you lose the right to complain about complaint, I'm afraid.

You'd need to identify some other point, like, "I do not believe there is sufficient evidence that he did anything wrong, criinal or otherwsie," which makes this an evidentiary discussion, and you may have to change your position if folks provide evidence. Alternatively, you could say, "Whatever offense he may have committed (criminal or otherwise) is not worth the grief heaped on him." But then you'd get into a discussion of exactly how much apparent support of abusers is acceptable, which is a hill you probably don't want to climb, much less die on, amiright?

Pick your poison.

 

[Morrus]

Morrus may be being too amusing to make the point clear.

Amusing? I’m hilarious!*


*for certain values of ‘hilarious

 

[jasper]

In the era of megacorporations, the difference between government and private enterprise can be smaller than you think.

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[Parmandur]

I'm curious about this. What was the nature of their tiff? Did it in any way hint at what WotC's plans or non-plans for Mystara might be?

I posted a link earlier upthread, but basically, Sernett was asked about Mystara in a stream, and proceeded to tick off all the Mystara lore fans. It was... not promising that WotC had any plans for Mystara, ever.

 

[Retreater]

CRIME NOT DETECTED! PROCEED CITIZEN!

SOCIAL MORES DO NOT APPLY TO ROBOCOP!

But do S'mores apply to RoboCop? Mmmm S'mores.

 

[Retreater]

Do we have to have another thread hijacked by this topic again.

Exactly! Can't we just get back to edition warring like the old days?

 

[Marandahir]

@Mistwell
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt once, then I'm done with you. I'm not interested in any whataboutist sealioning, thanks.

What we know:

<snip>

So that's me done with you. You can huff and puff and sealion some more if you wish, but I won't be answering your posts any more, or seeing them. Others will no doubt regard you with their own opinions if you continue in your current way of thinking though, as I've outlined above. You might want to bear in mind how you come off if you do so.

As much as I agree with you, Lem23, on most points, I think you're erring towards a broader political discussion (which we should avoid per Terms of Use and mods above) Not flagging or anything; I'm just hoping we can steer the conversation toward acceptable parameters so that we don't get this whole thread shut down.

Personally, I'd rather just set people to ignore if they're offending me that much. Warnings rarely help.

I posted a link earlier upthread, but basically, Sernett was asked about Mystara in a stream, and proceeded to tick off all the Mystara lore fans. It was... not promising that WotC had any plans for Mystara, ever.

That's a darn shame. Is there a reason they can't hand it off to, say, Goodman Games (a la the Classic Modules) if they've got no interest in revisiting it anytime soon?

 

[Hoffmand]

Exactly! Can't we just get back to edition warring like the old days?

Now those were the days. Makes this current stuff seem like a friendly conversation.