D&D 5E Dungeonscape Lives!

[GMforPowergamers]

The WotC executives (far above the D&D team) are stuck in the year 1996,

if that were true it would be great news...

just think 1996 Darksun, and SpellJammer, and Ravonloft... maybe even BIRTHRIGHT....

I wish people with big decision making power at WotC thought like it was the 90's... that would rock

 

[Henrix]

Letting more or less anybody make character generators would be excellent indeed.

 

[Dasem]

Letting more or less anybody make character generators would be excellent indeed.

Didn't Perkins mention the OGL at GameHole Con....?

 

[Mirtek]

IMHO Trapdoor failed to deliver certain contractual agreed milestones and WotC, being once burned by what happened with the 4e tools, chose to terminate the contract rather than put more faith in yet another developer not delivering expected and agreed results

 

[Henrix]

Didn't Perkins mention the OGL at GameHole Con....?

OGl does not mean that everything is free to use for everyone. I can see the basic rules being released as OGL content, but I don't think we'll see a 5e SRD.

 

[Ramius613]

I honestly think it was the layers of Hasbro/WotC that had the final say in pulling the tools, more than the design team. They probably could not wrap their heads around giving out the information in the books without making the people pay for it twice. As Trapdoor mentioned in their video interview, at the time they were waiting on approval and pricing from Wizards to submit it to Apple. They also said this was the first of its kind e-reader/tool.

I'm personally excited about the prospect of the software continuing on. What they were talking about for features beyond the character builder (which is the bare minimum) is what really excited me. To be able to purchase a published adventure and have all the goodies available to easily share with my players would make my life as a DM infinitely easier. Hell, if it turns out they struck a deal with Pathfinder, I'd honestly jump to that system.

 

[Newtonian]

IMHO Trapdoor failed to deliver certain contractual agreed milestones and WotC, being once burned by what happened with the 4e tools, chose to terminate the contract rather than put more faith in yet another developer not delivering expected and agreed results

This isn't actually even close to what really happened (as I stated in an earlier post)–but, at the end of the day, it really isn't important. All we're interested in doing is turning the project we had into something awesome for tabletop gaming. There is still nothing available like what we're building out there. The true test will be to see just how much everyone wants it.

Maybe that's me being too cryptic...but I like this part.

 

[dd.stevenson]

At some point, the real story of what happened will be told. I can say definitively, however, that the quality or effectiveness of the product was not the issue that caused the termination.

And you say downthread the license wasn't pulled for a missed delivery date?

That does sound like a cautionary tale worth hearing.

 

[Zaukrie]

Good luck if you put out a tool not tied to 5e. It is a crowded field.

 

[lkj]

So the Morningstar folks just tweeted a link to an interview on the Tome Show. Anyone listen to it? (I won't be able till some hours from now).

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