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<blockquote data-quote="darjr" data-source="post: 9118583" data-attributes="member: 52905">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 &quot;Pink Slip Edition&quot;. 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&amp;D and his ideas about why he thinks it took off.[callout]by thetime I was done it wasn't really clear what 5th edition's future was going to look like uh you know the attitude atthe time was like well you know we're writing our own pink slips because this is like and we shouldn't becalling it deity next we should be calling it DND last because we have no idea if this is going to go anywhere andthere was a lot of uncertainty um and of course to my to all of our surprise it exploded and I think it wasjust it was the timing is great right I mean the Zeitgeist is the Zeitgeist and uh I'm not gonna send Love Letters tostranger things but it certainly didn't hurt and uh the rise ofstreaming and the rise of live plays which were all kind of just bubblingaround 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 fifthkind of embrace bracing uh the feet of their mind my games mindset uh mindmindset uh worked out really well and worked out in the game's favor[/callout][MEDIA=youtube]VlwC-LRZ-dE:526[/MEDIA]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.[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/432417423/shadow-of-the-weird-wizard/description[/URL]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="darjr, post: 9118583, member: 52905"] 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. [callout]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[/callout] [MEDIA=youtube]VlwC-LRZ-dE:526[/MEDIA] 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. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/432417423/shadow-of-the-weird-wizard/description[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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