What should we do with the Seventh Edition?

After thinking about this a little more I think they'll decide to simplify. With our then-standard neural implants, we will be constantly bombarded with advertisements and the latest must-have augmentation product. Because of our limited neural capacity, there will only be one race, one class, one weapon (don't worry you get two to compensate!) one ability score.

I am of course talking talking about gnomish paladins with the ability of awesome. How much awesome? As much as you can handle, of course! So get ready for the inevitable and bow down to your new overlord, Sir McStabsalot. Seriously. Bow down. He gets kind of paranoid with everyone towering over him.

Oofta said:

After thinking about this a little more I think they'll decide to simplify. With our then-standard neural implants, we will be constantly bombarded with advertisements and the latest must-have augmentation product. Because of our limited neural capacity, there will only be one race, one class, one weapon (don't worry you get two to compensate!) one ability score.

I am of course talking talking about gnomish paladins with the ability of awesome. How much awesome? As much as you can handle, of course! So get ready for the inevitable and bow down to your new overlord, Sir McStabsalot. Seriously. Bow down. He gets kind of paranoid with everyone towering over him.

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Really if your not going to take such a serious and well thought out thread well seriously, then 7thed is just not for you. Sir McStabsalot will obviously dominate 6th ed but his time will be past.

StormbringerAUS said:

Really if your not going to take such a serious and well thought out thread well seriously, then 7thed is just not for you. Sir McStabsalot will obviously dominate 6th ed but his time will be past.

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Well obviously everyone should be playing Sir McStabsalot retroactively back to 0 edition. Yeah, you heard me right, Arneson should have been playing the mighty gnome paladin back in the Blackmoore days. I consider the fact that he didn't a personal failure.

Unless of course it's just a conspiracy and cover-up by corporate types to sell "books" and "other classes" when really you only need one.

It's obvious that WotC will want to go in a bold new direction.

Dungeons & Dragons 7E will lack dungeons and dragons.

lowkey13 said:

So I have seen several threads discussing what changes should be made with the Sixth Edition of D&D (6e, or, as I call it, D&D Sexy).

But let's not kid ourselves! We all know that D&D follows the Reverse Star Trek Movie Rule.

Wait, what? Well, as generally known, Star Trek Movies that were odd-numbered tended to ... suck, and even-numbered entries into the franchise tended to rock so very, very hard.

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TOS movies, anyway, sure. Also holds for Windows fairly well.
Though, really, it's like hemlines and the stock market, coincidence.

D&D, on the other hand

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Is hard to apply because there are more editions than there are numbers, and early ones overlapped:

0D&D
Basic
Different Basic
AD&D
no, 'nother different Basic
(OD&D, still in print, BTW0
AD&D 2e
Rules Cyclopeadia
"3"e but 3 counting from what, 0e to BECMI to 3e or AD&D, 2e, 3e?
REDACTED
Essentials
Next
5e

I mean, there's more than 10 editions, and they're interwoven as much as sequential.

Anyway, all of this got me to thinking- why are we even concerned about 6e? We know it's going to be a disaster, right?

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Now, the WotC eds are a small sample size, but if they follow the model, then, yes, 6e will all but drag Hasbro down, possibly touch off WWIII or the Zombie Apocalypse.

Sorry, that was a long way to go just end up accepting the premise, anyway.

So let's start planning.... FOR 7e! Put out collective minds to the real solution to 5e- the next ODD edition.

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So here's what I think will happen- people will make completely reasonable, well-received ideas for 6e that will fail.

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...fitting the pattern so far...

So my great idea is that the basis for 7e cannot lie there. Instead, we need to dig deep into the past for 7e....Instead of trying to mine all the fond memories people have, 7e is going after the terrible stuff: Here's what I'd like to see in 7e to get this started!

Comeliness. Yeah! But in order to uber-stat it, we need to make it creep up in power, like Charisma. Make it a spellcasting stat or something.

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Sure, the Warlock can pick it up. When you're interviewing with a Patron, it's better to look good than to be good (er proficient).

Percentile abilities. 18/96 strength! But that's not enough- All abilities deserve percentiles!

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But, only the class with it as prime req gets to roll. Everyone else gets a +1 bonus at 16+, that's it. Talk about yer bounded accuracy.
Small numbers FTW!

Since they'll need % dice, anyway, % skills! I mean, special abilities, because they're special. Instead of 13 or 17 skills that just anyone can take, divide them up amongst several monkey-classes, and make them % abilities that start around 15 or 25, and slowly crawl up over 20 levels. Strictly niche-protected, of course.

Well obviously 7th edition will just be branding for the online-only subscription-based (with DLCs and MTXes out the wazoo) Facebook-Oculus (TM) VR experience that replaces D&D in 2039. After the books DMCA'd out of existence by Hasbro, it was the only D&D they allowed us. They say there are still some sort of "physical" books out there, like those old-fashioned printed pages, only all bound together. Some even claim there are physical polygonal dice made of plastic you can play the game with, but that's obviously a fantasy, because no-one would make such things.

lowkey13 said:

Comeliness. Yeah! But in order to uber-stat it, we need to make it creep up in power, like Charisma. Make it a spellcasting stat or something.

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Undrave said:

I'd say the game just goes down to three stats (plus HP because that's gonna always be there):

Sorcery
Swordery
Skullduggery

Everything is based on those, even defences.

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Quoting for posterity because this combination is going to happen.

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Odd-numbered editions are beloved by all, even-numbered editions are pariahs. Especially the Second Edition. That's, like, the Lionel Richie editions.

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A dozen Top-10 hits. Four Grammys. Two Golden Globes, an Academy Award, and the first RIAA Diamond album.

You gotta wonder what people we love are like, when the pariahs are like that...

In 7e the Dragons are real

Guys, 7E is just gonna end up with concept splat-books testing mechanics for the soon-to-be-released 2x4=8E.