D&D 5E Backstage at D&D Next Keynote...

[Piratecat]

Live stream starts in about ten minutes!

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Behind schedule are they? I've got nothing.

In the meanwhile ... did they put out good munchies?

 

[Sonny]

My company has live streams a few times a week. So we're used to it.

But, when we first started out we had our ups and downs. Not to mention the amount of pressure on us when something went wrong and we fell behind schedule several minutes.

Wizards definitely has my sympathies here.

 

[thalmin]

I'm getting some sort of slide show now, but no audio.

 

[thalmin]

Now there is sound

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

I see, we're up. But what if I don't want to silence my cell phone?

Next: Hey, Adkison -- the name "D&D Next" really grates. How about 5E for us? And I want a Star Wars analogy, not a Star Trek one.



Yay, go PC! Looking dapper!

 

[Keefe the Thief]

Ed Greenwood - Master of Hair!

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

LOL at "Thrill of victory, agony of the natural 1"

OTOH: " We don't play D&D because we like rules about Armor Class" ... sez you, Mearls!

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Breaking news: Flumpfs are in!

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

John S: "D&D Design Principle #1 : If it ain't broke, don't fix it." I predict this statement will be controversial.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Breaking news: They'll be releasing some back catalog products, all the way back to TSR, electronically in 2013.

 

[fjw70]

Is this suppose to be streaming on the WotC GenCon coverage page? Because I am getting nothing.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Breaking news: New FR six novel series, "The Sundering", with six authors (starting w/ Salvatore, then Paul Kemp, then Erin Evans, then Richard Lee Byers, then Troy Denning, then Ed Greenwood with the closing novel) to transition to 5E. Get ready for another RSE, folks.

Greenwood:"There will be war. Gods & their chosen will take part. So will normal people. Your characters will be a part afterwards."

Salvatore: "Hopefully there will be these wonderful personal stories that make this change in the Realms make sense."

Main characters: Drizzt, Elmunchkin; Frieda the Warlock; Etwas Cale, half shade; Sergeant Kenrick, embittered paladin; and some pirate dude. (Edit: Sorry if I didn't catch the names quite right ... they were speaking quickly and I'm a poor typist.)

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Is this suppose to be streaming on the WotC GenCon coverage page? Because I am getting nothing.

GenCon - GenCon

 

[fjw70]

GenCon - GenCon

Thanks but it's not working for me. Must be an iPad thing.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Good for PC for asking tough questions like "Don't big RSEs take away from players owning the Realms?"

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Thanks but it's not working for me. Must be an iPad thing.

Yeah, it's Flash-based.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

On to 5E playtesting ... explaining why the rogue pre-gen has 8 WIS. Wizards: might be wild magic in the future.

Mearls: Lots of playtesting yet to go. Estimating a 2-year process at current rate. Will take the time to get it right "out of the gate".

 

[GodDelusion]

What he said ^

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Breaking news: will implement multiple types of magic systems via modularity. Releasing warlock and sorcerer classes tomorrow to demonstrate.

Warlocks: Pacts with other-worldly entities who channel magic. "Reality hackers".

Sorcerers: Internal wellspring of magic power. "Soul magic".