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Thanks for this. In part this was my point though. The real announcement was the first one with the presses. As you point out, that announcement made it seem that a new edition is not just on the horizon - but that it's playtest is imminent. And to answer the other poster: my point wasn't so...

No, it doesn't restore my faith, because it looks haphazard and disorganized. In short, it's the same we've seen from WotC for a while now, and last month's events haven't broken the trend. Here's a nice quote from Ryan Dancey which summed up the "WotC in late 2010" mood for quite some people...

I see what you did there.

This is a super interesting post, so I hope you'll forgive my disagreeing with you on a point of detail. Like many posts these days I do ask myself which game people talk about when they mention 4E. It's certainly not a game I've played that matches the description. Off we go... Yes, you'd...

Like the OP, I think Perkins was crucial to garner positive vibes about 4E online. The Penny Arcade act, in particular, now in its third year, was nothing short of amazing. I will note in passing that Penny Arcade has been rather skeptical of 5E so far, just as they were lukewarm about...

For those who build their characters with DDI, for those DMs who run their monsters out of the Monster Compendium, and for those groups who must be 'up to date' on the errata: yes, for them the D&D ruleset basically is DDI. Luckily, for my groups 4E still was a a thoroughly and exclusively...

Wanting saving rolls back is certainly a step in the right direction. Making them static target numbers in 4E (apart from that other 'roll above 10' mechanic which was, misleadingly, called 'saving roll') took away something relatively 'iconic' in the game. Still, like many, many, many other...

For completeness sake, it might help clarify that the image displayed above is that of the 2005 basic flip mat. The colour scheme on that changed in later versions of the same product, so you now got a grey mat on one side and a brown'ish hue on the reverse. That's perfect to cover 'indoor'...

You're right if this was purely about a subjective choice, based on my happiness. But I'm looking at things at a bit more general, and less subjective angle. To repeat myself, in all the things we heard so far they offered very little general rationales for 4E players to dump their game in...

I'm wondering what should encourage me to play 5E instead of 4E. A lot of the stuff that's mentioned in the transcript are things our group never found problematic - even if we used the term "arcane power [source]" at the table (which we don't), that'd hardly be a deal breaker - and other...

That was a bit premature on your part. ;) Here's "Another picture from the <s class="hash">#</s>dndnext playtest." posted 55 minutes ago: Follow it on twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23dndnext

Nice start, though I gotta admit I switched off shortly after 3:00, if for entirely subjective reasons. For my likes, the choice of background music is less than ideal (a WotC D&D trailer in 2009 also had metal, and got mixed reception). At any rate the music is far too intrusive - it competes...

I think you got it the wrong way round because you precisely think of 3E/4E fans when the easier explanation is to focus on the inverse fan segment. In that vein, tThe best 'theory' I've read is Jolly Blackburn's (Kenzer & Co) over at TheRPGSite: this is PR stunt for 1E fans to check out...

It doesn't surprise me that his generalizations do not mirror everyone's - whose experiences do? Even if you disagree with his generalizations, or my own examples of player/DM-dischord, there remains the bit I bolded at the end of my OP, which is really the heart of his contention as much as...

To quote the greatest Warhammer Fantasy rules hack alive, this thread went 'Nought to Feanor in 4.02 seconds'. Cheers! To paraphrase, "But according to my background story, having the Sword of Kas suits my paladin perfectly! You are a Bad DM (tm) for ruining my character!" Weeeeell - they...

Earlier today I came across an amazingly insightful comment on Monte Cook's latest column. I'll reproduce it in full: I agree with this, because this week as I'm starting up a new 4E campaign the usual stuff ensues. Endless bickering over which stuff to declare legit, what's off bounds, what...

Hmm, I'm not sure this is worth its own news entry, when the same info made the news a mere 5 days ago: http://www.enworld.org/forum/news/316280-small-handful-new-5e-designers-quotes-design-goals-healers-art-open-gaming-license.html Check the entry by Schwalb. ""So if you are a diehard...

Negative. New editions live and thrive on 'new blood'. 3E wouldn't have been possible without Tweet and Cook, then neophites in the 'design a new edition' game. Same holds for Heinsoo, Collins, and Wyatt - watch them on the early 4E preview youtube clips, with Andy throwing a ball at Rob: these...

I, Windjammer, will (continue to) critique people not for their preferences but at most for how they rationalize them. I will do my best to articulate my posts in a way that communicates this difference as clearly as humanly possible. I will certainly not become the next internet messiah to...

Oh, it absolutely is. To date, the published campaigns and modules for 4E have been s hite, to put it starkly, and anything that momentarily rises above the mediocre (or rather, to the mediocre) gets hailed as a 'return to form', a 'true gem', 'one of the bestest D&D products ever', or whatever...