Corpsetaker
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It's kind of funny but they have given us more of the very thing that actually caused the most bloat out of all the editions.
Spells.
Spells.
D&D 5E Crystal Ball: A year in, how do you think 5E will unfold going forward?
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Jester David
Hero
Option C) Wishful thinking.
Possibly with a dash of denial.
They've been working on the OGL for over a year now. They would have started that before the playtest ended and the product was finalized. They likely wanted it to be done around the same time as the core rules, possibly even the PHB. Heck, they could have started work on it when they began work on 5e, waaaay back in 2011. It's not like they need to playtest the OGL or make it specific to the final version of the rules.
The fact it's been almost a year since the books were released and they aren't even willing to discuss the probably contents albeit without details (like Mearls repeatedly said they would do last year) means it's likely very much still in flux. They're "working on it" either means they're still fighting over the contents or a legal department is dragging their heels like crazy. But the latter would explain a delay of a month or two. A couple months after the DMG, maybe a third catching up after the holidays. It doesn't explain 4-5 months after the DMG was finished.
The fact of the matter is the legal details are NOT that hard. They have the framework for two licences already written. The hard part is already done. It'd be easy to copy the original, revise a few terms where needed to protect the IP and prevent another Pathfinder. And they've had years to go over the problems with the OGL and GSL. This is a project that should take a week, not years. IF it was even remotely a priority.
So the problem is elsewhere, either internally at WotC or at Hasbro. If it was something they could compromise on or talk through they would have done so months ago.
Mearls is likely just being optimistic. Walking into meetings like we walk into edition war arguments thinking "I've got this now. This time when I present my case and argue my point they'll all agree with me." Still hoping he can win and get the OGL he wants out. But it doesn't work out like that. So the licence just sits there doing nobody any good.
Jester David
Hero
Corpsetaker
First Post
Then by the definition Princes would be considered a "splatbook" because it contains extra options. I don't see anywhere in the definition that the term is negative so yes I guess I do want more splatbooks since we already have some out already.
Edit: Looking more at the definition, campaign guides, books about magic items, extra options about the game as a whole would not be considered splay because they don't focus specifically to each class or race.
Looks to me like the term just gets used incorrectly.
Whether you like it or not is irrelevant.
There is a ton of content in there that can be used independent of the adventure, and it's not really an AP.
CasvalRemDeikun
Adventurer
I think if we see campaign settings, they will be a smaller affair than they have been in the past. Possibly only existing in Print On Demand form. Take Eberron, for example, it would include the finalized material from the UA article plus some blurbs on the individual nations, organizations, cultures, and religions. Probably would have a few monsters like Daelkyr and whatnot. No bigger than fifty pages or so. They would release one of these every few months, each time a new setting. If they release a full sized book, it will likely just be Forgotten Realms.
Each AP that they release will probably have a section like PotS had where it gives some idea of how to convert the adventure for different settings.
Each AP that they release will probably have a section like PotS had where it gives some idea of how to convert the adventure for different settings.
Corpsetaker
First Post
Well how about you describe all this supposed Realms detail that's there?
Are you serious?
The realms are just a backdrop. If anything its Greyhawk material that's in there.
You're telling me that you are incapable of taking chapter 6 for example and running that outside the realms?
cmad1977
Hero
Nowhere in his posts did he suggest that there was a ton of 'realms detail'. There is however a lot of content. Just because it doesn't cater specifically to your narrow 'needs' doesn't negate that fact. PoTA has a lot of adventures/NPC's etc that can be used in and/or outside of the FR with basically no effort.
