Away a while - what's the situation?

[Achan hiArusa]

After hearing your podcast on "In a Wicked Age" I heard:

1) No prep
2) atactical
3) strongly story oriented

and went SOLD! and bought a copy and posted the show on Facebook. I'm just waiting on the .pdf link right now.

 

[Ry]

Awesome! (Huge cred to Rich Rogers for editing out 95% of my "umms" and "yaknows")

 

[Achan hiArusa]

I did the test interview for an Oral History project and I couldn't believe how many times I used vocal fillers. I memorized the Japanese vocal fillers to keep from losing points on my Japanese Oral Exams, but I still had a lot of them.

 

[haakon1]

One 3.5/OGL trend not mentioned is Kobold Quarterly. To me, it's taken up where "Dragon" left off, as in a real print magazine about D&D.

Also, the same company is making adventures using a Renaissance sponsorship idea -- people sign up and participate in the discussion about what exactly to write. Pretty cool stuff, I think, though I haven't actually participated in the discussing (you can also sign up to just get a copy when they are done -- participation isn't mandatory). Some is 3.5 (and possibly Pathfinder), some is 4e.

 

[Keefe the Thief]

Hey, welcome back.

- There are lots of retro-clones trying to emulate certain aspects of older editions. Some are just rewrites of the rulesets to allow new modules to be published, other are "inspired" by certain editions and deviate from the rules more.

- DDI is going strong - the tools are awesome, and the compendium with all the information ever released for 4e may be the best thing that happened to D&D evar. It´s a tool every game should have.

- Developers have stated several times that the Gametable is still under development and used in-house at Wizards. Those of us who play online wait-and-see and use the excellent Maptool in the meantime.

 

[Shemeska]

- Developers have stated several times that the Gametable is still under development and used in-house at Wizards.

Quote from someone saying that it's currently in active development?

There's a big difference between 'we still hope to release it but are not currently working on it and development is indefinately shelved' and 'it's under development'.

 

[rjdafoe]

Quote from someone saying that it's currently in active development?

There's a big difference between 'we still hope to release it but are not currently working on it and development is indefinately shelved' and 'it's under development'.

I agree. I don't ever expect to see it.

I also agree with the person who said they should just give the Maptools guys money and have them make an official Maptools 4E product available through the DDI.

But hey, I would have paid Piazo to make the first modules/adventure paths instead of doing it with the subpar products they have in that space.

 

[Ry]

ahnehnois, could you give me the one-sentence version of why someone would choose Trailblazer over Pathfinder? Same for FantasyCraft?

I'm curious if I should dig deeper.

 

[Ahnehnois]

FantasyCraft is Spycraft rules for D&D. If you like Spycraft, you should take a look.

Trailblazer is a revised 3.5 PHB using some 4e sensibilities but keeping 3e mechanics, much simpler than Pathfinder but with more radical changes (and some things similar to PF). It also has a great deal of detailed analysis on what changes were made and why. It's cheap by pdf and definitely worth a look just for the analyses alone.

 

[The Little Raven]

I think the moral of the story is that 4e sold like crazy in the beginning, top three products of all time, but still pretty far behind 3.0's relaunch.

This claim is often made and always unsubstantiated.