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<blockquote data-quote="Dirigible" data-source="post: 2621428" data-attributes="member: 12631"><p>My predictions:</p><p></p><p><strong>Gencon 2006:</strong> 4th ed. is released.</p><p></p><p><strong>Dec 2006:</strong> One of the 4th ed. playtesters is found dead, blasphemous obscenities scrawled on the walls of the alley in a combination of pizza oil and blood.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jan 2007:</strong> 4.5 ed. is announced, and released in April.</p><p></p><p><strong>June 2007:</strong> 5th ed. is announced, and released in July.</p><p></p><p><strong>August:</strong> 5.5 ed. is announced and released one week later.</p><p></p><p><strong>August:</strong> 6th ed. is announced and released on the same day.</p><p></p><p><strong>August-September:</strong> By this stage, D&D editions are being created and published at an exponential rate, eventually at up to 400 per day.</p><p></p><p><strong>Late September:</strong> A black-ops team penetrate WotC HQ, and discover the dessicated bodies of hudreds of designers and freelancers hooked up to some kind of machine. At this point, the transmission is cut off.</p><p></p><p><strong>Remainder of 2007:</strong> Within the game, earlier edition characters fight a losing war against the progressively updating rules. Elminster perishes defending Living Raven's BLuff from a Pale Mauve Dragon with the xE3r1004/b template. Sharn is conquered and transformed into an academy for Hulking Hurlers (a core class since 3,812th edition.) The last transmission from Greyhawk mention good-aligned half-succubus drow.</p><p></p><p>Thousands of them.</p><p></p><p>In desperation, 1st ed and Basic characters are recruited and sent into battle unconverted. Their THAC0 proves useful in slowing up the Update forces (except editions 65 to 210.3, where THAC0 was reinstated).</p><p></p><p><strong>December 31, 2007:</strong> In a last ditch effort to salvage something, WotC converts a suitcase nuke from d20 Modern.</p><p></p><p><strong>January 1st, 2008:</strong> The smoke clears.</p><p></p><p>Intermittant distress <em>sendings</em> from BirthRight, Taladas and the other outlying settings report horrific casualties; none of them have saves against radiation.</p><p></p><p>In the ruined heart of Eberron, something stirs. Somehow, it used the energy of the blast to ascend, to draw upon an external source of rules that could adapt to the unconventional attack...</p><p></p><p>The era of D20-Gurps begins.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dirigible, post: 2621428, member: 12631"] My predictions: [b]Gencon 2006:[/b] 4th ed. is released. [b]Dec 2006:[/b] One of the 4th ed. playtesters is found dead, blasphemous obscenities scrawled on the walls of the alley in a combination of pizza oil and blood. [b]Jan 2007:[/b] 4.5 ed. is announced, and released in April. [b]June 2007:[/b] 5th ed. is announced, and released in July. [b]August:[/b] 5.5 ed. is announced and released one week later. [b]August:[/b] 6th ed. is announced and released on the same day. [b]August-September:[/b] By this stage, D&D editions are being created and published at an exponential rate, eventually at up to 400 per day. [b]Late September:[/b] A black-ops team penetrate WotC HQ, and discover the dessicated bodies of hudreds of designers and freelancers hooked up to some kind of machine. At this point, the transmission is cut off. [b]Remainder of 2007:[/b] Within the game, earlier edition characters fight a losing war against the progressively updating rules. Elminster perishes defending Living Raven's BLuff from a Pale Mauve Dragon with the xE3r1004/b template. Sharn is conquered and transformed into an academy for Hulking Hurlers (a core class since 3,812th edition.) The last transmission from Greyhawk mention good-aligned half-succubus drow. Thousands of them. In desperation, 1st ed and Basic characters are recruited and sent into battle unconverted. Their THAC0 proves useful in slowing up the Update forces (except editions 65 to 210.3, where THAC0 was reinstated). [b]December 31, 2007:[/b] In a last ditch effort to salvage something, WotC converts a suitcase nuke from d20 Modern. [b]January 1st, 2008:[/b] The smoke clears. Intermittant distress [i]sendings[/i] from BirthRight, Taladas and the other outlying settings report horrific casualties; none of them have saves against radiation. In the ruined heart of Eberron, something stirs. Somehow, it used the energy of the blast to ascend, to draw upon an external source of rules that could adapt to the unconventional attack... The era of D20-Gurps begins. [/QUOTE]
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