D&D (2024) Dungeons and Dragons future? Ray Winninger gives a nod to Mike Shea's proposed changes.

[JEB]

Update the System Resource Document under the Open Gaming License

As a producer of 5th edition material, the Open Gaming License helps me publish material any DM can use to make their game better. While I can still publish under the current 5th edition System Resource Document (SRD) (and will do so should it not be updated), a new SRD would help further connect the widespread community of 5th edition publishers to this new edition of D&D. The OGL and SRD helps bring D&D to the whole community and ensure it lasts the ages. Please update the SRD with new changes and continue to support third party publishers who love this game as much as you do.

This is one area I'm particularly concerned with in 2024, so I hope Winninger was including this in his response.

 

[Parmandur]

Jeebus, yes, I am aware, as indicated by the text of the post you’re quoting.

Did you read the post you’re replying to?

Errr, what? You were saying that a substantial rewrite of the text warrants calling it a new Edition, even if the rules remain compatible...? Then I am glad that we agree..?

 

[cbwjm]

Some of his requests seem like pretty safe bets, things like backwards compatibility and Tasha's changes, for instance.

Others would be good. A better CR encounter calculation would probably be useful for some players, personally I don't bother with it anymore, I just create encounters. They normally end up as hard or deadly since I set them up in the encounter builder in dndbeyond but that doesn't make me change them.

For the rest, TotM support I think I'd likely find quite useful, from memory the only thing I can recall is that they suggest the amount of creatures caught in an AoE by spell level. I'm not too worried about race descriptions, and I'd have assumed the SRD would be updated as a matter of course.

 

[darjr]

I am so very glad to see them acknowledge folks commentary on 5e. I know they pay attention but it sure is nice to be able to show people.

 

[grimslade]

5E can support a lot more rules and system diversity than we have seen to date. I hope the Anniversary edition will provide a nice stable platform to expand to new magic systems and different avenues of play in post-2024 releases. Fold in the design principles in the later splats to the core, refine messy/inappropriate lore, and give better guidance to new and old DMs. It will sell like hotcakes

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Errr, what? You were saying that a substantial rewrite of the text warrants calling it a new Edition, even if the rules remain compatible...? Then I am glad that we agree..?

Maybe I need a break from this site. I am extremely frustrated by this interaction.

You unnecessarily explained to me how editions work in other industries, in reply to a post wherein I explicitly indicated my understanding of exactly what you were explaining.

I am now much more uncertain as to whether you’ve been bothering to read what you are replying to.

 

[Parmandur]

Maybe I need a break from this site. I am extremely frustrated by this interaction.

You unnecessarily explained to me how editions work in other industries, in reply to a post wherein I explicitly indicated my understanding of exactly what you were explaining.

I am now much more uncertain as to whether you’ve been bothering to read what you are replying to.

I honest to goodness have looked over that post several times, and do not see that there.

At any rate, they will do what they do: whether they acknowledge it as a new Edition or not is immaterial.

 

[Li Shenron]

"Including Tasha's free classes boosts" and "being 5e backward compatible" are... not compatible. Unless those free boosts are in the DMG under a paragraph labelled as optional.

 

[Parmandur]

"Including Tasha's free classes boosts" and "being 5e backward compatible" are... not compatible. Unless those free boosts are in the DMG under a paragraph labelled as optional.

So, if a 2014 PHB character play in a 2024 Adcenture, or a 2024 party can play through Hoard of the Dragon Queen without any conversion...that is backwards compatible.

Note that the Tasha's options are power neutral with the PHB, and can already ne mixed and matched anyways.

 

[Li Shenron]

So, if a 2014 PHB character play in a 2024 Adcenture, or a 2024 party can play through Hoard of the Dragon Queen without any conversion...that is backwards compatible.

Note that the Tasha's options are power neutral with the PHB, and can already ne mixed and matched anyways.

Yeah I know that I have a bit too strict notion of backwards compatible... but the free boosts of Tasha to me mean that if you play e.g. a 2014 PHB character without those boost and another at the table plays a similar character with 2024 PHB boosts, that is unfair. If the whole set of boosts was optional (as it is currently, as long as Tasha remains a separate optional book and the boosts are not integrated to the PHB) then it's everyone or no one, and it's still fair within a group. Other Tasha's stuff is not a problem because it's not "free", you always have to give something up to get a variant class feature for example.