Corpsetaker
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Did anything happen at the world's most famous convention with regards to 5th edition? Any announcements? Anyone products reveals? Anything?
D&D 5E So what happened at GenCon with relation to 5th edition?
Kramodlog
Naked and living in a barrel
Let see what was said.*
Definitely something that is not the OGL is coming at some point in time.
The video game is really important. "Please buy it, I have kids to feed." -Mearls
A D&D film is on its way!** Maybe in claymation!
The D&D cartoon will be back, but the cast will be grown up!
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Mearls finally admitted 5e was all sham and that the real definite edition of D&D is 6e.
Oh, and GenCon is not a place for announcements anymore.
*May not reflect reality.
** Not announced at GenCon.
Definitely something that is not the OGL is coming at some point in time.
The video game is really important. "Please buy it, I have kids to feed." -Mearls
A D&D film is on its way!** Maybe in claymation!
The D&D cartoon will be back, but the cast will be grown up!
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[/sblock]Mearls finally admitted 5e was all sham and that the real definite edition of D&D is 6e.
Oh, and GenCon is not a place for announcements anymore.
*May not reflect reality.
** Not announced at GenCon.
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thalmin
Retired game store owner
They ran some preview games of the upcoming adventure, Out of the Abyss.
Wizards of the Coast did not have a booth nor have anyone selling or displaying D&D.
Wizkids did not have a booth nor have anyone displaying the upcoming Rage of Demons D&D miniatures.
Mike Mearls did an interview wherein he talked about D&D.
I don't believe Wizards even had any seminars or public forums there.
Wizards of the Coast did not have a booth nor have anyone selling or displaying D&D.
Wizkids did not have a booth nor have anyone displaying the upcoming Rage of Demons D&D miniatures.
Mike Mearls did an interview wherein he talked about D&D.
I don't believe Wizards even had any seminars or public forums there.
Corpsetaker
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So basically they did not have a presence at the most iconic convention where it all started.
Real class.
Real class.
Sacrosanct
Legend
Wait, what? It's not like they showed up and pooped all over a copy of the 1e AD&D PHB. Because they didn't have as much as you want doesn't mean they had a lack of class. Perspective people.
Jester David
Hero
Nothing happened. Which was expected as there were no scheduled panels, and all the news happened prior to the con.
It's paradoxical.
They say they want to focus on PAX and do panels there, because attendance at PAX panels is better than GenCon. The argument is that people go to GenCon to play but PAX to attend panels. However, the Adventurer's League has been receiving less and less support at PAX, so that's a self-fulfilling prophecy. PAX is a much more mixed group, rather than dedicated D&D fans.
Really, it sounds like the Adventurer's League is just being slowly downsized. It doesn't make money and the profits it generates in book sales is hard to gauge. But when they cut funds to the AL it's less obvious than when they lay someone off.
It feels a lot like what happened with Living Forgotten Realms, where the program was hyped and hyped but quickly fell out of favour and was replaced by Encounters. WotC really seem to lack the attention span needed to run a prolonged organized play program, or at least run one with D&D.
It's paradoxical.
They say they want to focus on PAX and do panels there, because attendance at PAX panels is better than GenCon. The argument is that people go to GenCon to play but PAX to attend panels. However, the Adventurer's League has been receiving less and less support at PAX, so that's a self-fulfilling prophecy. PAX is a much more mixed group, rather than dedicated D&D fans.
Really, it sounds like the Adventurer's League is just being slowly downsized. It doesn't make money and the profits it generates in book sales is hard to gauge. But when they cut funds to the AL it's less obvious than when they lay someone off.
It feels a lot like what happened with Living Forgotten Realms, where the program was hyped and hyped but quickly fell out of favour and was replaced by Encounters. WotC really seem to lack the attention span needed to run a prolonged organized play program, or at least run one with D&D.
That room was the board game room. D&D was only the 1/6th or so of the room closest to the camera-person, who seems to have been standing on the AL HQ platform. Compared to the last few years, the D&D was much less organized and impressive, and the WOTC presence was non-existent, apart from Mearls and Crawford popping by to sign peoples' PHBs for a bit.
