No 5e threads for now, please

[WalterKovacs]

And that no rolling to hit thread was really interesting, even though the concept horrifies me.

It seems interesting as well ... however it doesn't really need to be framed as a 5e issue. Many of the 5e threads could still be interesting topics, discussing RPG design in general ... framing it as a 5e thread just makes it a magnet for edition war stuff to derail it from more important manners.

 

[Dice4Hire]

Thank you for killing 5E threads. The check is in the mail.

No, it really is!!

 

[mach1.9pants]

Well that means it is time to resurrect some of those 4.5 threads then

 

[Minicol]

I am really sad to read this, as I thought that even if some people derailed the thread that probably prompted this, there was promising exchange, and I wished I could have talked further with some of the posters.

Besides, IMHO, it feels like any criticism of the current edition is also targeted.

While I can undertsand your reasons, I don't see how it helps the hobby as a whole.

I still respect your opinions however, and I will abide by your decision.

 

[Lanefan]

Curious timing, seeing as a 5e-related speculation article is on today's news board.

Does this mean we are not allowed to discuss future (D+D) game evolution at all? I ask because *any* such discussion is by default going to be in terms of what might be good/bad/etc. for 5e as that is the next logical evolutionary step for the game, ignoring any 4.5-ish oddities.

Lanefan

 

[TwinBahamut]

I'm actually pretty unhappy about this decision. If nothing else, I really was enjoying the "What Sacred Cows will be gone in 5E" thread, and it was a remarkably civil and interesting thread considering the topic.

If nothing else, talking about 5E is a way to talk about what people want to see in D&D and how they want it to grow and transform (which can be very positive and valuable discussions) in a way that isn't as bogged down with edition warring and arguments about current editions. The fact that 5E is clearly some time away, due to the recent edition change, helps that a lot. It has been very different from talking about 4e in the latter years of 3.5e.

 

[wingsandsword]

I'm actually pretty unhappy about this decision. If nothing else, I really was enjoying the "What Sacred Cows will be gone in 5E" thread, and it was a remarkably civil and interesting thread considering the topic.

If nothing else, talking about 5E is a way to talk about what people want to see in D&D and how they want it to grow and transform (which can be very positive and valuable discussions) in a way that isn't as bogged down with edition warring and arguments about current editions. The fact that 5E is clearly some time away, due to the recent edition change, helps that a lot. It has been very different from talking about 4e in the latter years of 3.5e.

Personally, I saw the "5e" threads as a veiled commentary on WotC's now explicitly stated viewpoint that they have to release a completely new, completely different edition of D&D every so-many years, so they are saying there will be a 5e one day, and it will be way different. Just how different can you make a game and it still be D&D?

It's a long way from when I first started. My 2e PHB I bought in '98 even had a big introduction saying it's not 3rd Edition AD&D, and they have no plans to ever make such a game because everybody knows the AD&D rules and among other reasons they want old former players coming back to the game to see that not much has changed (after all 2e wasn't that much different than 1e, especially compared to later edition changes).

In the 3.5 era, we heard denials that 4e was in the works even when we found out later on that it had been quietly under development for some time. Now we know that at least, in theory, 5e is on the WotC radar (even if it's 6, 7, 8, or 9 years from now) and they probably have some ideas, roughly speaking, about how they are going to shake things up.

But, if that is too much too soon, and apparently annoying the mods we can wait. We know it's time will come.

 

[Dice4Hire]

I too, know 5E's time will come, but this early in 4E it seems more like 4E bashing (which mostly 5E threads devolve to) to talk about 5E right now. In other words an edition war between one edition and a hypothetical one.

 

[yarael]

Anyone find it ironic that this thread has devolved unto, essentially, a 5E thread......

 

[DaveMage]

Well that means it is time to resurrect some of those 4.5 threads then

Good one!


Seriously, though, I find this decision to be really odd. I mean, as others have said, the mods & Morrus run things, so if that's how they want it, so be it, but it seems a bit antithesis to a discussion board about D&D to stop discussion about the progression/evolution of the game.

Strange days...