D&D 5E Live tweets from gencon 5e Seminar

[Warunsun]

Could see the return of "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons".

I wouldn't be surprised if the main 5E game was just called Dungeons & Dragons with an Unearthed Arcana style book being released six months to a year later called Advanced Dungeons & Dragons with some of these proposed optional modules and heavier rules bits included.

 

[jodyjohnson]

We need to be able to say, "I won Dungeons & Dragons, and it was Advanced!"

 

[thundershot]

I'd like to see the 5 being very different from each other.

Forgotten Realms
Dark Sun
Eberron
Planescape
Spelljammer


Spelljammer because that they said they'd like to make it it's own thing instead of just the connective tissue. Plus it would give us Giff.

 

[the Jester]

So I guess nothing from the Sunday seminar?

 

[MerricB]

There's something odd about seeing people post forensic examination of what Mike Mearls said when it's being relayed to us through tweets.

Consider what Mike said according to Wizards_DnD:
"Mike: We can also take, say, out five most popular settings and make modular rules to support the flavor and mechanics of those. "

That doesn't look like "We're going to do rules for our five most popular settings", but "we could". Could be four. Could be six. Could be none.

 

[Blackbrrd]

I agree.

But "college" and "of valor" do not go together very well. Shall we imagine a bardic college that has VALOR written above the door? Will a bard say: "I have graduated the College of Valor?" I could understand College of Waterdeep or Silverhand College or anything like that. But that would require tying colleges to a certain place or person, which doesn't work with the generic approach to classes. "College of" can also the object of study, as in "College of Music", but shall we imagine the attendents of the College of Valor to study valor as their subject?

They had a similar problem with the Circle of the Oak in their last packet. Why would druids of the spellcasting type care for that particular tree? They improved upon that. Druid of the Circle of the Land is member of a group of druids with a strong connection to a particular land.

Colleges just doesn't make sense in a medival setting (though maybe in a fantasy medival setting). There were centers of learning in medival times, but those were all associated with the church. If you wanted to learn something, you apprenticed under a master. Those that didn't entered the church in one way or another.

 

[variant]

I wouldn't be surprised if the main 5E game was just called Dungeons & Dragons with an Unearthed Arcana style book being released six months to a year later called Advanced Dungeons & Dragons with some of these proposed optional modules and heavier rules bits included.

Mike Mearls already said that the Dungeon Master's Guide is going to resemble the Unearthed Arcana. We also know there is going to be Basic, Standard and Advanced rules.

 

[orangefruitbat]

University of Bologna (1088)
University of Paris (teach. mid-11th century, recogn. 1150)
University of Oxford (teach. 1096, recogn. 1167)
University of Modena (1175)
University of Palencia (1208)
University of Cambridge (1209)
University of Salamanca (1218)
University of Montpellier (1220)
University of Padua (1222)
University of Toulouse (1229)
University of Orleans (1235
University of Siena (1240)
University of Coimbra (1288)
Heidelberg University (Germany) (1386)

Colleges just doesn't make sense in a medival setting (though maybe in a fantasy medival setting). There were centers of learning in medival times, but those were all associated with the church. If you wanted to learn something, you apprenticed under a master. Those that didn't entered the church in one way or another.

 

[Remathilis]

Really? If anything, I'd gotten the exact opposite sense from it. I mean, they want to make sure the return to the Great Wheel cosmology doesn't automatically enforce Planescape on DMs who don't like that "Hey, you got your Planescape in my Forgotten Realms!" "Hey, you got your Forgotten Realms in my Planescape!" crossover that was so common in the 2E days, but from what we've been hearing from Legends & Lore, these live tweets and especially Wyatt's Wandering Monsters column, Planescape sounds like a shoo-in.

EDIT: I fear you're right about Ravenloft, though. It sounds like they want to carve out a niche for it for DMs who want to run it, but they're not necessarily going to produce any material for it, other than reprints of the old stuff.

The PLANES have been a big thing post Planescape, but the tone, feel, and such of Planescape isn't. Planescape wasn't about travelling to Hell to slay devils; it was about a group of berks who heard the chant that a rare flower which only grew in Baator was being sought for the first marriage of a Ultraloth and a Succubus, but removing that flower might revive a long forgotten power who will bring pain and misery to the planes and need to stop the loths, the mad proxy of the forgotten power, and a group of Sensates who wish to smell this rare flower's fragrance, from ever getting there.

THAT is Planescape; everything else is just Manual of the Planes.

 

[Warunsun]

There's something odd about seeing people post forensic examination of what Mike Mearls said when it's being relayed to us through tweets.

It is the Internets! It must be true!

Since Mr. Mearls & all are going to do at-least one more packet then they must not be sure exactly what the plan is yet. Still under construction...