D&D General Mike Mearls sits down with Ben from Questing Beast

[dave2008]

You can download a PDF of Odyssey. I did a couple of days ago.

Where from? His blog or patreon or somewhere else?

 

[Zaukrie]

Thanks! I lot of what I have heard him say mirrors what I have had on a low simmer for my 5e-ish D&D draft. So I didn't want to recreate the wheel if he has already figure out some of the issues I want to address.

I think you should check out Nimble also ......though it does diverge a bit (no "to hit" roll mostly).

 

[User51]

Where from? His blog or patreon or somewhere else?

I got it from his Patreon, free tier.

 

[dave2008]

I think you should check out Nimble also ......though it does diverge a bit (no "to hit" roll mostly).

I did look at nimble a while ago and it didn't hit for me. I may take another look.

 

[mamba]

I remember vividly tons of old-school players saying that D&D was finally going back to it's root after the high-abstraction of 4E and the high simulationism of 3E. It was my first contact with a huge crowd that still played older editions (2E, 1E, B/X, etc). I definitely remember what Ben describes, this so called call to victory by the old school players.

And now, a decade later, 5E is being torn apart from what seems to be a similar or adjacent crowd as being the antithesis of what an Old School game is.

I mean, it is closer than at least 4e was to the OSR, but 5e is still pretty far removed from being old school, not that I actually want to go back to 1e

 

[mamba]

Where from? His blog or patreon or somewhere else?

still an early draft

https://www.patreon.com/posts/odyssey-rulebook-121492318

 

[dave2008]

I got it from his Patreon, free tier.

still an early draft

https://www.patreon.com/posts/odyssey-rulebook-121492318

Well I was already a member and I had forgotten (under a different email). So I have downloaded the draft now. I will take a look later.

 

[Yaarel]

A simple and decisive factor for the success of 5e, is the massive surveys to hear and understand what D&D players want.

Before 5e, D&D was more like an author writing a book and then waiting to see what happens. Now D&D is more like customer service, designing to meet specific needs, but more on the level of extrapolating to the widest audience possible, rather than one-on-one.

I hope WotC and especially Hasbro hear the warning from Mearls lest the big business structure distance the decision makers away from the details of what users of D&D products like and need. Because the effort to find out what D&D players want is what made 5e surprisingly successful in the first place.

 

[darjr]

There are some great historical bits in here.

I must admit I’m a lost sheep when it comes to 5e and WotC, I don’t think the general public is.

 

[Bedrockgames]

Watching this one now. It is an interesting conversation