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A bit of history here form Rob. This story has already been told but it's in different places scattered on the net. This is a nice concise summary of the feeling of what they expected with 5e and the surprise at it's rapid success at launch. Fifth edition was supposed to be the mothball edition, or as Rob says the "Pink Slip Edition".
There are other interesting bits but here at about 8:50 into the video he mentions they all thought it was the edition of D&D and his ideas about why he thinks it took off.
There is a lot more interesting there about where he began his career and of coarse the purpose behind the podcast his new game which I think I should point out just to be polite, I think it has about 30 hours or so left.
There are other interesting bits but here at about 8:50 into the video he mentions they all thought it was the edition of D&D and his ideas about why he thinks it took off.
by the
time I was done it wasn't really clear what 5th edition's future was going to look like uh you know the attitude at
the time was like well you know we're writing our own pink slips because this is like and we shouldn't be
calling it deity next we should be calling it DND last because we have no idea if this is going to go anywhere and
there was a lot of uncertainty um and of course to my to all of our surprise it exploded and I think it was
just it was the timing is great right I mean the Zeitgeist is the Zeitgeist and uh I'm not gonna send Love Letters to
stranger things but it certainly didn't hurt and uh the rise of
streaming and the rise of live plays which were all kind of just bubbling
around they were bubbling they were simmering at the time of late fourth edition but I didn't think you know their explosion into Fifth and fifth
kind of embrace bracing uh the feet of their mind my games mindset uh mind
mindset uh worked out really well and worked out in the game's favor
time I was done it wasn't really clear what 5th edition's future was going to look like uh you know the attitude at
the time was like well you know we're writing our own pink slips because this is like and we shouldn't be
calling it deity next we should be calling it DND last because we have no idea if this is going to go anywhere and
there was a lot of uncertainty um and of course to my to all of our surprise it exploded and I think it was
just it was the timing is great right I mean the Zeitgeist is the Zeitgeist and uh I'm not gonna send Love Letters to
stranger things but it certainly didn't hurt and uh the rise of
streaming and the rise of live plays which were all kind of just bubbling
around they were bubbling they were simmering at the time of late fourth edition but I didn't think you know their explosion into Fifth and fifth
kind of embrace bracing uh the feet of their mind my games mindset uh mind
mindset uh worked out really well and worked out in the game's favor
There is a lot more interesting there about where he began his career and of coarse the purpose behind the podcast his new game which I think I should point out just to be polite, I think it has about 30 hours or so left.