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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 6038673" data-attributes="member: 996">I ran Temple of the Frog (the 0D&D module that was in Blackmoor) using Essentials - with minis on a bare table-top, no grid, just a pocket tape measure and pencils set down for walls.  I didn't change the type or numbers of monsters, the bizarre 'boss,' or the convoluted maps. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  I decided on 9th level pregens, though, making for some radically under-powered encounters, so a wandering troll wouldn't just eat the party, but it worked surprisingly well.   (sadly the trolls never showed, and the party recruited the medusae...)Actually, it probably is going to fade away.  Unlike 3.x and other earlier games it can't really be 'cloned' in d20, it's own GSL is very restrictive, so no one is going to be able to pull a Pathfinder and basically publish the SRD as a competing game.  Once the DDI tools are killed and anyone bootlegging a clone of the system has been C&D'd, it'll be down to insular groups running long-standing campaigns.  There may be quite a lot of that - it is an excellent system and 5e doesn't seem to be on track to do any better - but it doesn't make a lot of 'noise' in the community.  Other, niche, games will attract the attention of those looking for something better than 5e, and they'll exit the community entirely.  It will become very easy to conclude that 4e is dead - especially for those edition warriors who fought so hard to kill it.</blockquote>

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