D&D General GenCon TV: Celebrating D&D

[Oofta]

When talking about 4E back in the day, they openly discussed being influenced by MMOs. That video games in general took a lot of ideas from D&D and that of course that had come full circle and they were now borrowing ideas from MMOs. Whether that was a good thing or not is a matter of preference and opinion.

 

[overgeeked]

Tomatoes tomahtoes man. MMO design theory was on the brain.

It’s important if nuance and accuracy are important. “It’s just a tabletop MMO” is not accurate. Nor were they directed to copy WoW.

 

[overgeeked]

Where can you watch the 4e one?

It should be up on YouTube late next week. I watched it live on the GenConTV Twitch channel. No idea if the VOD is there now.

ETA: The VOD is up on their Twitch channel.

 

[MockingBird]

It should be up on YouTube late next week. I watched it live on the GenConTV Twitch channel. No idea if the VOD is there now.

Thanks!

 

[overgeeked]

Thanks!

Just checked and the VOD is up on Twitch.

 

[Shardstone]

Will they be doing a 5E panel too?

 

[overgeeked]

Will they be doing a 5E panel too?

Yep. Next Saturday at 10am PST. Mike Mearls is one of the panelists.

 

[UngeheuerLich]

Where can you watch the 4e one?

Click on the topmost link (3e one) and then on the topmost video.

 

[TiQuinn]

It’s important if nuance and accuracy are important. “It’s just a tabletop MMO” is not accurate.

That’s splitting some pretty fine hairs there, nuance or not.

 

[overgeeked]

That’s splitting some pretty fine hairs there, nuance or not.

Not even close. If their remit was to make 4E “familiar to WoW players,” they succeeded. If their remit was to copy WoW, they failed miserably.

From what I can tell, this comes down to giving every class something interesting to do every round of combat. Oh the horror. Centering combat, which was a mainstay for many, many groups from the beginning. And party roles. Which WoW copied from D&D in the first place. That’s incredibly thin.