D&D 5E (2024) Polygon takes shots at WotC & D&D

[TerraDave]

The premise for the piece is a bit tortured.

BUT this part:

l. Project Sigil, the highly anticipated Unreal Engine-powered virtual tabletop, hasn’t been seen much in public since August, when it bugged out repeatedly on stage during a game run by Aabria Iyengar. Later, at a live event in London with a similar format, it wasn’t shown at all. Now comes a new marketing push for a simpler, flatter, web-based solution called Maps.

……….

WotC had a 3d table top for 4e—which they massively hyped—and I remember seeing it at a live demo like it was yesterday. Seeing it crash and crash and crash. Eventually they would role out a more standard vtt (then drop it).

So 2024 might be a 4e throwback after all.

 

[MerricB]

I'm glad to hear someone else say this. Keep on the Borderlands is practically holy sacrament for players of my generation, but I think it's pretty meh. It's just a monster hotel, really. And unlike the G modules, not a very inspired monster hotel.

When I read Return to the Keep on the Borderlands -- which is brilliant -- it made me realize how dull the original is by comparison, and how little Gygax did with the premise. There, I said it. Burn me at the stake if you will.

Let me introduce you to a legendary review of Keep...

Review of B2: The Keep on the Borderlands - RPGnet RPG Game Index

See who wrote it? He's got a couple of credits to his name.


Cheers!

 

[mamba]

The only thing missing from next year's slate is a campaign adventure.

yes, a campaign is missing, but then we get two FR books. I don’t think the number of books & starter sets has slowed down, it’s just not a typical combination for a year

 

[mamba]

I expect that is what we will see here, something riffing on B2 but radically different.

I certainly hope so, not a fan of B2

 

[Reynard]

I think that's the Dragon Anthology.

Sure, but Anthologies aren't campaigns.

 

[pukunui]

Let me introduce you to a legendary review of Keep...

Review of B2: The Keep on the Borderlands - RPGnet RPG Game Index

See who wrote it? He's got a couple of credits to his name.


Cheers!

That link isn't working for me.

 

[MerricB]

That link isn't working for me.

Have you got a stealth block for rpg.net?

 

[pukunui]

So 2024 might be a 4e throwback after all.

Indeed. The OG 5e was intended to bring the anti-4e players back into the fold, so the 2014 devs engaged in all sorts of linguistic gymnastics in order to avoid any association with the prior edition. However, it would appear that Crawford et al have merely been biding their time to steer the game back towards the 4e style.

Have you got a stealth block for rpg.net?

Nope. It works now, though! How strange.

 

[UnplayedRanger]

So a game powered by unlimited imagination is in trouble because there's not a new campaign coming out this year?

what?

 

[QuentinGeorge]

Don't Enworlders take shots at WOTC all the time?