Mercurius
Legend
Just a month and a half after the announcement of 5E, aka D&DNext, we're already seeing tons of comments to the effect of "5E is of no interest to me" or "I'm very disappointed with 5E" etc. No offense to anyone in particular, but I just have to shake my head. Are we really at that point already? It has been a month and a half - no, not even!
Need I remind these gentle folks that:
A) We're not even at the open playtest stage, so few if any of us have actually seen the rules, let alone played any version of the game
B) D&D Experience represents either a pre-alpha or early alpha version of the game
C) The point of the open playtest is to get feedback on the alpha version of the game, so...
D) Even when we get the open playtest material, it is going to be a very rough version of the game that WotC will (presumably) fine-tune through feedback.
Can we at least get deep into open playtesting before writing the game off, if not the beta stage?
Let me be clear: I am not writing this post to rile people up but to try to nip this sort of thinking in the bud before it snowballs into another edition ** please don't try to bypass the profanity filter - Plane Sailing, Admin **, and hopefully calm folks down with a simple reminder: we're very early in this process. Very little, if anything, is set in stone - at least that we've seen. (And of course, it goes without saying that even if you don't like 5E, there are plenty of other versions of the game with endless material, so no need to get too upset! The worse-case scenario is that WotC will produce a version of the game that you don't like but probably don't hate as much as Edition X, so at least that's something!).
Need I remind these gentle folks that:
A) We're not even at the open playtest stage, so few if any of us have actually seen the rules, let alone played any version of the game
B) D&D Experience represents either a pre-alpha or early alpha version of the game
C) The point of the open playtest is to get feedback on the alpha version of the game, so...
D) Even when we get the open playtest material, it is going to be a very rough version of the game that WotC will (presumably) fine-tune through feedback.
Can we at least get deep into open playtesting before writing the game off, if not the beta stage?
Let me be clear: I am not writing this post to rile people up but to try to nip this sort of thinking in the bud before it snowballs into another edition ** please don't try to bypass the profanity filter - Plane Sailing, Admin **, and hopefully calm folks down with a simple reminder: we're very early in this process. Very little, if anything, is set in stone - at least that we've seen. (And of course, it goes without saying that even if you don't like 5E, there are plenty of other versions of the game with endless material, so no need to get too upset! The worse-case scenario is that WotC will produce a version of the game that you don't like but probably don't hate as much as Edition X, so at least that's something!).
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