More 5E podcasts and articles

[Morrus]

A quick roundup of a few more podcasts and articles covering the recent announcements regarding the next edition of D&D. Thanks to benensky for the scoop!

• Critical Hit #130: Kobold Alley - The crew reacts to 5E and is excited about community involvement. Then the actual play continues with the Kobold Alley adventure.
• Gamerstable, New Edition Ep 40 - Most of these guys come out of the gate blasting the announcement of D&D 5E/Next and give lots of love to Pathfinder. After a while, Mike leads the discussion quoting EN World posts and the speculation subsides. However, most of the discussion returns to beating up Wizards of the Coast and D&D. At the end this group does spend some time on what they would like to see. They endorse, like other sources, micro-sales of $1 - $5 for downloadable class/races/rules-sets.
• Grumpy RPG Columns: Looking at the Announcement for 5E D&D - Grumpy does literary and content analysis on Mike Mearls’ 5E announcement, the article in the New York Times and the article by Forbes. He rips on Mearls’ announcement taking it apart almost line by line. He gives slightly more affection to the Forbes article. Then, gives most of his appreciation to the Times article.
• Happy Jacks RPG Podcast Season 07 Episode 01 - (explicit) The Happy Jacks group reacts to the 5E news and express their excitement, hopes and wishes. One wish they have is for a classless system which they say opens up for many more character options. The remainder of the episode is about how your character is not just your class, but more.

And a couple of blogs/articles:

• Tell Me Everything About D&D Next - a blog from one of those present at the big reveal in early December last year. Thanks to Trevor for that scoop.
• Wizard’s Watch: The Quest for Grand Unified D&D? - an article from Neuroglyph Games.

 

[Pneuma Z]

I also just posted an entire podcast on the 5e change up - you should check it out at Shauncastic 71: The Next Iteration : : Shauncastic!

 

[jeffh]

As has often been said (usually on the Magic side of the fence, granted, rather than the D&D side), if WotC put out boxes of free money, people would complain about how it was folded.

 

[Gerrin]

You can also check out the Dragonlance reaction to the 5e announcement with the Canticles latest podcast.

Dragonlance Canticle

The first half of the podcast covers psionics, but the second half discusses 5e.

 

[Kzach]

As has often been said (usually on the Magic side of the fence, granted, rather than the D&D side), if WotC put out boxes of free money, people would complain about how it was folded.

Having worked as a cashier, I can tell you that it's incredibly annoying to get folded or crumpled notes...

 

[Jeffrey]

Hey Morrus,

Just wanted to tell you that I appreciate the effort of collating all this news about the new D&D edition. It is much easier to check here for new links daily, then go off to do my reading.

Thanks.

 

[Grumpy RPG Reviews]

Thanks for mentioning my blog (Grumpy RPG Columns), as it gave the blog a boost. I do stand by everything I said in the podcast and will probably be producing these "Looking at 5E News" posts about once a month.

 

[Gamerstable_Jayson]

Morrus,

Thanks for mentioning our humble podcast. I kind of feel like you may have misunderstood us - ever so slightly. It is true that we took WotC to task for announcing a new edition so soon after 4th. It is also true that, led by our DM, Mike, we have not pursued playing 4th Edition, and have stayed with 3.5. I don't agree with you that we gave "lots of love to Pathfinder." None of us have played it that I'm aware of - I know I haven't. We are aware of their success, and that can't be ignored, nor can the fact that their success is due in no small part to rebellious D&D players who refused to buy into 4th Edition.

I would love to see D&D back on top and attracting old and new gamers alike. I'm willing to help out with beta testing and, if it's a quality product I'll even buy the new PHB when it comes out. Until then, I'll reserve my enthusiasm for when WotC does something that restores the essence of D&D - roleplaying and character development. IMO, I think that's what was missing from 4th Ed. in what little I played of it.

Cheers and thanks for listening!

Jayson @ http://www.gamerstable.com

 

[Gamerstable_Jayson]

How was that for a first post?

 

[Alphastream]

I'm glad you linked to Greg's "Tell me everything" article. Greg is a fantastic guy and that blog article doesn't capture the deep organized play and D&D experience he has (and brought to the meetings). I wasn't at Greg's table (I played a different adventure in the same room), but what he describes is similar to what I experienced. Half the fun of being at Wizards was hearing the stories and insights of people like Greg.