D&D 5E A NEW interview with Mike Mearls

[Cyberen]

I still stand behind my prediction of a FRCS on the last quarter of 2015.

Far Realm Coconut Sorbet ?
Forgotten Realms Complete Shutdown ?
First Ranger Coronation Syndrom ?

 

[DaveMage]

I think you may be forgetting the great D&D drought of '97!

Heh. "There's a problem with the printer."

 

[Wolfskin]

Far Realm Coconut Sorbet ?
Forgotten Realms Complete Shutdown ?
First Ranger Coronation Syndrom ?

I'm definitely talking about the official D&D Coconut Sorbet. It wouldn't make sense not to make it!

 

[CAFRedblade]

After getting FR, Eberron, and perhaps a few other staples, I'd love to see this Storyline, Adventure/Setting format revisit the Ghostwalk setting book put out during 3rd ed.

And now I need to figure out a campaign idea where the party TPK's as part of the adventure, but wakes up as ghosts and ghoulies continues/finishes an adventure.. before returning to their bodies in some form.

 

[mxyzplk]

A reminder to folks, just because they're releasing crunch in sync with an AP doesn't mean you can't use it as if it had just come out as a pure rules book. They're just restating how Paizo does it - like they put out the Technology Guide in preparation for their Iron Gods Adventure Path, but it's not tied in too tightly, you can get it and use it for whatever sword-and-laser thing you have in mind. It doesn't have to come out as rules options embedded in AP-specific information to just come out in sync with the new storylines.

 

[Kramodlog]

D&D has 15 people working on it now!? Pathdinder has 50. I wonder how many people were working on D&D over the years.

 

[Mistwell]

Paizo provide shorter stand-alone modules as well though

Pretty sure they cancelled that program and don't do those anymore. I could be wrong though as I don't follow them that closely. Anyone confirm or deny this?

 

[Mistwell]

D&D has 15 people working on it now!? Pathdinder has 50. I wonder how many people were working on D&D over the years.

It's more like 7 vs 20, for people actually working on the games. The 15 vs 50 isn't really a good way to look at it, as a lot of the 50 are jobs that non-D&D WOTC employees would do as part of the larger sub-division of WOTC (HR, Marketing, Facilities, Payroll, etc.) which itself is part of the even larger Hasbro which also has some jobs that Paizo has in those 50.

 

[DaveMage]

Pretty sure they cancelled that program and don't do those anymore. I could be wrong though as I don't follow them that closely. Anyone confirm or deny this?

They still do them, but it's quarterly (-ish) now, and they are 64 pages (IIRC) rather than 32.

 

[Mistwell]

They still do them, but it's quarterly (-ish) now, and they are 64 pages (IIRC) rather than 32.

Ah, OK, thanks for the correction. Looks like from their website they have three scheduled right now: Plunder & Peril, Daughters of Fury, and Feast of Dust.