D&D Older Editions

[teitan]

Ignore me like a buttercup that has a spot of bird waste on it, I am tainted. ;-)

 

[Blue]

The 13th age tag is still in the current D&D section. It's a 4th edition derivative, right?

One of the lead designers of 13th Age was Rob Heinsoo, the lead designer of 4e, and there are some mechanical concepts brought over, like Recoveries (= Healing Surges) and Staggered (= Bloodied). But the other lead designer was our @Jonathan Tweet who was also one of the lead designers of 3.0. Together you have a game that is neither 3.x nor 4e, but notably combines concepts with various editions of D&D as well as an awareness of where the industry has moved to in order to make a streamlined d20 system they described as "A love letter to D&D".

If I had to compare, it plays closest to D&D 5e. But it also had the liberty to modify some sacred cows that would have been untouchable under the D&D label. Really, it's my favorite D&D-like game.

 

[Cadence]

What an odd thing to say. It literally says “D&D” in the subforum name.

The exact opposite. The idea is to encourage discussion without having those threads immediately buried under a million 5E threads.

So, just to clarify something that came up in another thread about this with @Oofta. Is the D&D General tag under D&D essentially "all editions", while the 5e tag would just be 5e?

Thanks!

 

[Jacob Lewis]

So, just to clarify something that came up in another thread about this with @Oofta. Is the D&D General tag under D&D essentially "all editions", while the 5e tag would just be 5e?

I saw this coming weeks ago.

Will the older editions get a D&D General tag for topics that aren't edition specific? Or is the tag only good for the other folder, which begs the question: Is that folder specific for 5e or D&D in general?

 

[DataDwarf]

 

[Cadence]

I guess my questions is;
Why are threads discussing material from older editions in the Dungeons & Dragons forum not being moved into this, D&D Older Editions, forum?

Seems that this is where the would belong as they are specifically discussing material from the older editions.

Are they solely discussing older editions? Or 5e and older together?

 

[DataDwarf]

 

[infinityman]

I'm still not confident I ever ran this game correctly TBH. We always took the "guidelines" part more seriously than the rules.

 

[TerraDave]

This thread, "Red Orc" American Indians and "Yellow Orc" Mongolians in D&D, is specifically a discussion regarding a module released for 2ed AD&D.

Then there is the thread, Oriental Adventures, was it really that racist?, in the TTRPGs General forum that is specifically discussing Oriental Adventures from 1ed AD&D.

Specifically discussing materials from older editions, seems to me, to belongs in the Older Editions forum. I'll admit that I may be missing some nuance, and if I am I would like to better understand when a discussion regarding older editions should be in this forum vs one of the others.

edit: grammar

I think you can ask for threads to be moved. But not in this thread, apparently.

 

[CleverNickName]

I think you can ask for threads to be moved. But not in this thread, apparently.

Yep. It would probably be more effective to send a private message to a moderator.