At Least 4 Months For Conversion Documents

Those waiting for official conversion documents from earlier editions of D&D to 5th edition are going to have to wait a bit longer. WotC's Mike Mearls says that "the person who needs to do the final approvals on them is serving on a jury that will take another 4 or so months. Sorry!" So it looks like we're talking July/August at the earliest. Thanks to Adrian for the scoop.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I asked earlier, but only S_Daalsgard bothered answering, so all ask again - for everyone whose criticizing WotC for a "lack of communcation" and asking them to be more forthcoming with project info, what does acknowledging internal delays or cancellations of unannounced projects get them?

Happier and more understanding customers with appropriately set expectations.

Have you seen this thread? I have, and find it does not support that assertion in the least.

Instead, I'm reminded of a fable:

The Scorpion and the Frog

A scorpion and a frog meet on the bank of a stream and the
scorpion asks the frog to carry him across on its back. The
frog asks, "How do I know you won't sting me?" The scorpion
says, "Because if I do, I will die too."

The frog is satisfied, and they set out, but in midstream,
the scorpion stings the frog. The frog feels the onset of
paralysis and starts to sink, knowing they both will drown,
but has just enough time to gasp "Why?"

Replies the scorpion: "Its my nature..."

~Aesop

 

[Kramodlog]

You're starting from the premise that the communication was well handled.

 

[lyle.spade]

To everyone still bemoaning WOTC's supposed deceit, evil intentions, incompetence, unresposiveness, stupidity, lack of vision, crappy products, failures, rotten employees, corporatism, poor communications, buggy online products, dearth of PDFs of current books, no new OGL, and otherwise general awfulness....

GET A LIFE! In all the time you've spent throwing verbal bombs via this board you could have come up with a decent conversion system yourself, had people playtest it, and could have started an entirely new board complaining about how it doesn't properly represent the multi-armed gargoyle statue in Tomb of Horrors when you try to covert it to 3.5.

Seriously.

You do realize that all this stuff is made up, right? I mean, if your adult white dragon's attack bonus is off by 1...maybe even 2...the world won't end. Actually, my guess is that your fantasy world won't end, either. I'm certain the real world won't end.

So instead of griping and grousing and making baseless accusations and generally wasting your time being grouchy...GO DO SOMETHING USEFUL, like create a conversion system all yourself. I'd be happy to take part in your field test.

In the meantime, please view this (it is not crude or obscene in any way).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0I63QlYPmQ&feature=youtu.be

 

[Trickster Spirit]

You're starting from the premise that the communication was well handled.

I'm starting from the premise that the only "communication" anyone should expect to get from WotC are release announcements.

A fan asked Mearls a question about the conversion documents and he gave a straight answer. If you were in charge of that communication - you had to answer the question knowing that the conversion documents would be delayed at least a few months - how would you have handled it?

 

[Halivar]

GET A LIFE!

As someone who is decidedly not in the group you are deriding, I have to say there is no unoffensive way to take this. In particular, there is no proper usage of the phrase "get a life" that exists in civil society. It's what people on a high horse use to deride the supposedly trivial and petty concerns of lesser people. It's bad, and you shouldn't say it. You have a different set of cares and concerns than the detractors in this thread do, and that's fine; someone somewhere probably thinks they're as petty and deserving of derision as the ones you trivialize here, and just as unjustly.

Your Truly,
A Concerned Netizen

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

You're starting from the premise that the communication was well handled.

In this case yes: Mearles answered a direct question directly, succinctly, and sufficiently. And to the person from whom the question originated.

Said Q&A was then leaked/retweeted, and everyone who cared found out.

Make no mistake: you, the customer, are not entitled to an update or justification for every internal reason for a change in the product schedule. ESPECIALLY when you were not part of the conversation in the first place. That you found out the reason for the delay was a gift.

 

[Shasarak]

Instead, I'm reminded of a fable:

I always liked the one where the Scorpion replies "Because I can swim"

 

[lyle.spade]

As someone who is decidedly not in the group you are deriding, I have to say there is no unoffensive way to take this. In particular, there is no proper usage of the phrase "get a life" that exists in civil society. It's what people on a high horse use to deride the supposedly trivial and petty concerns of lesser people. It's bad, and you shouldn't say it. You have a different set of cares and concerns than the detractors in this thread do, and that's fine; someone somewhere probably thinks they're as petty and deserving of derision as the ones you trivialize here, and just as unjustly.

Your Truly,
A Concerned Netizen

Okay, I get it.

How about "roll for a life"? With a +2 bonus?

Now people can fight over which kind of die.

It's called "a joke," and sometimes jokes poke fun at people and how they behave. Imagine a world with no humor, as we sit silently in fear of ever - ever - stepping on the toes of anyone, in any way. Remember: "joke."

 

[Tormyr]

Okay, I get it.

How about "roll for a life"? With a +2 bonus?

Now people can fight over which kind of die.

It's called "a joke," and sometimes jokes poke fun at people and how they behave. Imagine a world with no humor, as we sit silently in fear of ever - ever - stepping on the toes of anyone, in any way. Remember: "joke."

It would have to be a d20.

 

[Wicht]

Okay, I get it.

How about "roll for a life"? With a +2 bonus?

Now people can fight over which kind of die.

It's called "a joke," and sometimes jokes poke fun at people and how they behave. Imagine a world with no humor, as we sit silently in fear of ever - ever - stepping on the toes of anyone, in any way. Remember: "joke."

The older I get, the more convinced I become that the best jokes to tell in mixed company, and among strangers, are self-deprecating.