D&D 5E (2014) GAMA Trade Show and Game Developer Conference start Monday - announcement Tomorrow?

[Plaguescarred]

"No multiple PHs" Well, that's a relief.

Glad to hear there will be only 1 PHB which means it will have most races/classes at launch.
Also YAY for confirmation release of D&D Starter Set and PHB/DMG/MM model!

I hope all those cool images will be shown on the website soon!

 

[GX.Sigma]

They will still print 4e until interest goes away.

That's an interesting statement, considering they stopped printing 4e months ago.

 

[Hussar]

That's an interesting statement, considering they stopped printing 4e months ago.

How so? Sure, no new books but how do you know they are not printing existing ones? Additionally I would take this to mean continued DDi support.

 

[Agamon]

Stories—and I think I'm not stretching it to assume that means "story lines"—are NOT what Dave and Gary did. They have their spot, but not every gamer is going to use them, maybe not even most.

I didn't mean to mix those quotes together, they were pretty separate in context.

But by the latter, I think they mean the story of the game. "Remember when we fought that huge red dragon and your fighter jumped on it's back and it took off into the air with you?" That is certainly more memorable than mechanics. No one says, "Hey, remember when I initiated that grapple against the mage, and I had +4 for being large and +2 for flank? That was great."

 

[mach1.9pants]

No multiple PHB does not mean lots of classes in the PHB, 3E and PF and many other games have only one 'PHB' but many classes outside that book. I think this is a bit of a smoke screen, 'Yay one PHB' but then we have Book of blades or Tome of Thieves or whatever with extra classes.

Personally I don;t care either way, to make money they have to sell more books and more classes is a sure way to do it, look at PF as an example.

 

[Iosue]

Another thing to consider is that "DMG will focus on locations, scenes and magic items" does not mean, "No magic items in PHB." The limited magic item playtest doc would slide quite nicely into a full PHB, providing basic magic items (+1 armor, weapons, etc) as well as some simple rules for making them interesting, colorful, and distinctive.

 

[Mistwell]

They were listed in different months, with the Starter coming out before. So nothing they said disputes anything B&N posted.

Which makes more sense if you think about it. Which is more likely: WotC sent B&N some SKU info and it accidentally got posted, or someone just made some stuff up and posted it?

To me, it's option three: WOTC requested an ISBN number, B&N automatically picked up on it as coming from one of the publishers they always resell, and they put a space-holder date and price on it based on similar industry releases.

 

[Mistwell]

That's an interesting statement, considering they stopped printing 4e months ago.

Uh, no they didn't. At least, I've seen no evidence of that. Do you have any?

 

[GX.Sigma]

Uh, no they didn't. At least, I've seen no evidence of that. Do you have any?

Ah, my mistake, I thought it meant something else.

 

[Ichneumon]

A starter set and the usual three, all dripping with pretty. That's what I like to hear. I also appreciated that there'd be only one PHB, and that the Monster Manual wasn't going to 'save any for later'.

It'll be interesting to find out just how far the ongoing 4e support will go. I'd expect the publication of system-neutral books to continue, and offering 4e versions of elements (classes, magic items, etc) in books otherwise dedicated to 5e could happen as well.