GenCon - WotC's "secret seminar" - What is the Sundering?

[Shiv]

Now that GenCon event registration has opened, I gotta ask...

How many of you discovered Wizards' secret mystery seminar?

What is the Sundering? (SEM1233080) - Gen Con Indy 2012

"D&D" isn't in the seminar title. It's being offered at two different times and is two hours long. "Host" is listed as "Wizards of the Coast." "Description" is listed as "Trust us. You'll want to know."

Let the speculation begin.

 

[Alzrius]

I have no idea what this could be, but I just signed up!

 

[rkwoodard]

Forgotten Realms?

My Guess: They are Sundering the Realms back apart (undoing the 4th edition thingy that they did).

RK

 

[Dark Mistress]

My guess is they will unveil that 5e is secretly being made by animated chocolate bunnies and you will play chocolate bunnies in 5e and have to fight against pudgy kids that try and eat you.

 

[FATDRAGONGAMES]

My guess is they will unveil that 5e is secretly being made by animated chocolate bunnies and you will play chocolate bunnies in 5e and have to fight against pudgy kids that try and eat you.

Thanks Dark Mistress, I just spewed Dr. pepper on my keyboard.

 

[Scrivener of Doom]

My Guess: They are Sundering the Realms back apart (undoing the 4th edition thingy that they did).

RK

The Sundering was an event in the distance past of the Realms... so maybe the 5E version of the Realms is going to be way back in FR history.

Sundering - The Forgotten Realms Wiki - Books, races, classes, and more

Then again, that was far more destructive than even the Spellplague so I expect it would lose even more FR fans....

 

[wingsandsword]

Was the Sundering the schism in the D&D fanbase that came from the Edition Wars?

Since 5e's goal is to bring fans back together and united a divided fanbase, the Sundering could be a dramatic way of describing them.

 

[RangerWickett]

Back a few years ago, Penny Arcade created a wiki so people could invent lore for a fictional novel line, called Epic Legends of the Hierarchs: The Elementstor Saga. The whole thing was an over the top pastiche of fantasy cliches.

The timeline of the history listed several major events like:

The Sundering
The Unsundering
and
The Resundering

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

That is difficult to Sunderstand.

 

[Al'Kelhar]

Back a few years ago, Penny Arcade created a wiki so people could invent lore for a fictional novel line, called Epic Legends of the Hierarchs: The Elementstor Saga. The whole thing was an over the top pastiche of fantasy cliches.

The timeline of the history listed several major events like:

The Sundering
The Unsundering
and
The Resundering

... interspersed with:

The Great Upheaval;
The Time of Troubles;
The Day of Reckoning; and
The Plague of Those Annoying Little Midges You Find in Sand Dunes.