DDXP 2010 News and Updates

[Zaukrie]

Must be some exciting D&D news, if the whole thread is about minis and star wars....

 

[coyote6]

Eh, the issue is more with having to buy randomized booster decks to get more.

Mind you, I'm not 100% certain they're random. If they aren't, then that makes it a bit easier to swallow.

If GW gets added to the character creator software, or gets its own separate one (depending on how close it hews to 4e, it might be pretty easy to spin off a separate builder for it), then I imagine the powers/mutations on the cards will all show up in the software. Presto -- you don't need to buy the booster cards, any more than you needed to buy the DDM PH line to get the new power cards in them.

(One of the tweets did say "random booster packs" -- that could be wrong, of course.)

Still viewing this somewhat cynically, but hey, what did you expect from me

I knew I should've picked you in the First Person To Call It A CCG pool.

 

[ProfessorCirno]

Must be some exciting D&D news, if the whole thread is about minis and star wars....

Eh, the D&D stuff is just business as usual.

The minis, Gamma World, and SWSE, are much bigger changes.

 

[darjr]

Hey! Wil is there!

dang. I knew I should have gone.

wut? I guess he isn't there after all.

 

[darjr]

Geeks Dream Girl coverit live page.

LiveBlogging: Dungeons & Dragons Experience 2010 (DDXP) : Geek's Dream Girl

She just posted some details about defiling.

 

[ShinHakkaider]

Honestly, this was long forseen. With no new movies, there just isn't anything to sustain the excitement of Star Wars to the general public. There will always be the die hards but for a Star Wars rpg to be sustainable there has to be other things that drive it - like movies. Maybe when the live action TV series gets going it may bring the excitement level up but that would be about it.

Also, I'm sure other companies will look into getting the license but they will only be modestly successful as Star Wars falls into a niche market.

Um, I don't know how many of you are watching but CLONE WARS on Cartoon Network HD but it is pretty damn good. It took me a couple of episodes to get on board but wow. I liked it so much that I picked up the 1st season on Blu-Ray, so yeah there's still Star Wars out there and as you mentioned the live action series when it does start...

 

[Fanaelialae]

If GW gets added to the character creator software, or gets its own separate one (depending on how close it hews to 4e, it might be pretty easy to spin off a separate builder for it), then I imagine the powers/mutations on the cards will all show up in the software.

Allegedly, stat blocks for GW will be compatible with 4e.

 

[Riley]

Oh god.

Suddenly, my excitement for Gamma World 4e has vanished. I quit MTG well over a decade ago, and I'm not going back.

Seriously? You're not going to see what the actual implementation of this is before writing it off?

I mean, yes it does involve some sort of cards...that do have some sort of randomization to it. But you're comparing it to a game with thousands of cards, where you actually compete against other players?

Sometimes I think that people really are unwilling to see experimentation done.

I didn't say I'm writing it off; I'm just saying that my excitement level suddenly went from "Wow! Yay!" to "Oh god."

Cards are expensive, and you get very little crunch (or fluff) for your buck. That greatly raises the bar on how awesome GW4e will have to be in order to justify the additional cost.

 

[Hawke]

I was expecting a sort of Dungeon Delves 2... I really really enjoyed that product. I guess some of their DDI stuff is sought to replace it... but I really did enjoy that quick and dirty 1-30 delves... would love it broken down into tier... a book of heroic, a book of paragon, and a book of epic maybe? Do 2 heroic, 2 paragon Year 1 and then 2 heroic, 1 paragon and 1 epic year 2?

 

[Dice4Hire]

yes, it does seem odd to me that they are taking at least a half-year or so out of the I, II, III schedule to make these materials for "newer" players. Frankly, I am interested in them, if they are fully 4E compatible, as I think they will be. I was not buying any II or III books this year except Martial Power, and that mostly for the feats for martial PHBII races.