From Gencon Events - "All D&D games at Gen Con being placed with RPGA"

[DaveMage]

It's a cootie issue.

 

[amerigoV]

Hopefully, it will turn into the D&D version of this

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It can be billed as "Edition War - Last Nerd Standing". That would be coooooool.

 

[Sammael]

Of course, this will separate Pathfinder players from D&D players. Cunning move on WotC's part.

 

[Wormwood]

Hopefully, it will turn into the D&D version of this

Well well well, if it isn't Ron Burgundy and the Fourth Edition team. Where's your healing surges?

[laughter]

You back off, Third Edition Team.

Brick, where'd you get a minion?

I don't know.

All right. Let's do this!

If you're gonna have a fight, then don't forget Second Edition with me, Elven Bladesinger Frank Vitchard.

You dirtbags have been in fourth place for ten years!

Yeah? Well, you're about to be in dead place!

Not so fast, you ingrates! OD&D is taking a break from rolling 3d6 (in order) to kick some ass. No hardbacks! No mercy!

Bree Yark, munchkins! First Edition is here.

Tonight's tournament module:
The sewers run red with Burgundy's blood.

Well looks like we got ourselves an OSR bloodfest.

Now, before we do this, let's go over the ground rules.

Rule number one:
No touching of the dice or minis.

Of course.

And that's it! Now let's do this! Roll Initiative!
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[Wicht]

Of course, this will separate Pathfinder players from D&D players. Cunning move on WotC's part.

I don't know, as a Pathfinder player, I still consider myself to be playing D&D and if I was to go to Gencon would feel no embarrassment about taking my game into the "D&D" room. By making it open, they are exhibiting a very noble attitude and it would be detrimental for them then, on site, to start telling people which game was and was not actually D&D.

 

[renau1g]

Well I'm sure WOTC sees it differently, after all they own the rights to D&D while Paizo owns the rights to the Pathfinder rule system. I wouldn't consider Mutants and Masterminds D&D either, but it uses the d20 system (OGL stuff too right).

Pathfinder is another fantasy RPG similar to D&D, but it can't be D&D as otherwise WOTC would shut it down. They also don't list Pathfinder as one of the "editions" to bring so in other words you would go to pick a fight? Not cool.

Also, I don't think WOTC cares about nobility. It's a corporation, therefore it has 1 goal to increase the value to the shareholders aka make money, not support Paizo's endeavors.

 

[Treebore]

They stole this from my meetup!

We invite all versions of D&D at our monthly D&D Meetup, even Pathfinder is welcome, we always have. What we find is that there is common ground between the players and DMs, not battlefields like you often see in messageboard forums.

I think this is a great thing for Wizards to offer. I seriously doubt there is some sort of plot afoot, but those who are in doubt can feel free to opt out and/or don a tin foil cap.

There is a plot afoot, a plot to unify, rather than divide, and I fully support it.

 

[Treebore]

I don't know, as a Pathfinder player, I still consider myself to be playing D&D and if I was to go to Gencon would feel no embarrassment about taking my game into the "D&D" room. By making it open, they are exhibiting a very noble attitude and it would be detrimental for them then, on site, to start telling people which game was and was not actually D&D.

I wouldn't say that Hasbro has gotten this smart just yet. Praise them for the step they have taken, and maybe in a few years they'll take another step in the right direction again.

So I hope no one is foolish enough to give the nay sayers about this within Hasbro "evidence" to prove their case over the cooler minds currently prevailing.

 

[lrsach01]

I don't get it... what is the trick? I see unity of D&D through out the ages...aka people playing with the basic booklets all the way up to any and all 4e suplemnts...showing a unified front...

we are all playing the same game after all...

Not a trick, but let's face it, WotC hasn't been welcoming to OGL derived games. They went out of their way to make sure 4e wasn't as inclusive as 3e or 3.5 And they introduced 4e as the game we should be playing because we really weren't having fun playing 3.5. THIS statement is how I would have liked to see WotC behave from the beginning and hope they behave like this more often down the line.

 

[Khairn]

If WotC was actually interested in supporting a D&D Community irregardless of edition, then a move like this would be without reproach of any kind. But since WotC has made it clear that such a community is not a goal of theirs, I think its understandable that their actual motivation for making this would be questioned. Whether that motivation is to make certain the WotC hall is always packed, an effort to attract new players to 4E, or to keep Paizo and Pathfinder away, is an interesting, but probably fruitless exercise.