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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kramodlog" data-source="post: 7680665" data-attributes="member: 55961">It is a lesson learn from 4e. Instead of announcing lots of changes that will not please people all at once, info is trickling out and fan shrug it off. It took us a while to learn that we'd get one or two AP a year. That the FR will be the default setting. That there will be few splatbooks. It took Nathan Stewart's April interview in Forbes for us to found out for sure. <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidewalt/2015/04/15/new-dungeons-dragons-fifth-edition/" target="_blank">http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidewalt/2015/04/15/new-dungeons-dragons-fifth-edition/</a> Those aren't fantasic news. Same with how GenCon is being dropped by WotC when it comes to D&D. People found out after or during GenCon. From tweets by Mearls I believe. I might be mistaken on that detail.It is a mediatic strategy designed to lessen fan backlash. This is why we aren't told that the PnP RPG is taking a backseat to video games, movies, cartoons... The result is no backlash like they got with 4e. I guess they know they aren't making popular choices with where the PnP RPG is going. And its working. Individually, these news are taken with a shrug by the community. Ok, sure we get some people who are talking about their disatisfaction, you for example, but we mostly get the usual cheerleaders and some fatalism. Don't expect anything about the OGL or whatever might replace it until they are ready to release one. If they release one. We'll sort of never know if an OGL for 5e as been scraped. Except maybe in a tweet by Mearls. Two years from now. Which will be totally non-official.</blockquote>

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