Perhaps no D&D 4th Edition is Being Planned Yet

[Glyfair]

I had to explain to several of them some of the classical allusions our professors made, like the meaning of "Sword of Damocles" and how it applied to certain laws.

Yeah, I can't tell you how many people I've had to explain what a "Gordian Knot" solution to a problem was. Gamers have the highest percentage of knowing, but I think that's even below 50%.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Thanks for reminding me..."Gordian Knot" was another one.

 

[thalmin]

I think the OP may have a point.

Launching DI and announcing 4e at virtually the same time makes little or no business sense to me. What WotC need to do is build up DI and get regular readers, then tease them with 4e hints. I'd suggest a year (minimum) between DI going online and release of 4e.

4E announcement at GenCon 2007, release at GenCon 2008. This meets the above

 

[jgbrowning]

4E announcement at GenCon 2007, release at GenCon 2008. This meets the above

I'm thinking pretty much the same thing but Winterfest 2007 to Winterfest 2008. I predicted back in 2005 a 2008 release so I'm interested to see if that comes true.

Hope you're doing well, Curt.

joe b.

 

[Banshee16]

They have not yet confirmed whether or not users will actually be able to save DI content to their computers, due to different definitions of "download" ...

Anything that means I can't download it to my PC, to print out or whatever, and have to be logged in to use isn't really a lot of use to me....that would bind me as a customer to the subscription module, and take away options.....so if I liked an article in July, but find that in August/September/October nothing was being added to the site that I find useful, so I decide to cancel my membership, I'd then lose access to the July material that I actually liked.

I'd hope consumers wouldn't fall for that kind of thing. The DI will only work if we buy it. As customers, we get a certain amount of say over how the system will work. If they try to make something that we don't like, we vote with our wallets, and the initiative fails. I'm sure WotC understands this.

Banshee

 

[Banshee16]

I wonder if they're switching to a print on demand model... that has the potential to be very seriously cool.

Combine that with the DI, and it could be very cool. Imagine having an online source of articles, and being able to select the ones you want, pay WotC by credit card or whatever, and have them ship you a custom printed book with just the components rules which you "checked out" or whatever.

That would be very, very cool.

Banshee

 

[Felon]

Adventure modules do not count. Neither do books like "Grand History of the Realms" either. I'm talking about books that add to the lore or cover the lore that has yet to be covered in the Realms.

No, you specifically referred to "Forgotten Realms" books, so all of the aforementioned do in fact fulfill that criterion.

Now if the adventure is covering something brand new or hasn't been covered in forever, like say an adventure in Chult or Veldorn, then it'd be worth something.

Where has Corymyr, the Moonseas, or Shadowdale been covered before? A lot of folks playing D&D for the first time have never seen any source material for these places besides what's in the sourcebook.