Wizards R&D Seminar at GenCon 2007

[Lonely Tylenol]

What does that have to do with a new edition? Isn't all that pretty much the DM's turf?

Apparently, props, pacing, characterization, and sense of humour are all now strictly controlled in the 4E core rules. Ettin heads must talk to each other. Period. End of discussion.

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

IMHO, that nostalgy was the biggest problem the 3.x designers encountered.

It wont be long before many thanks Mearls for hacking those cows in little pieces.

"He sliced a chunk off the beholder once. Now he's back to finish the job."

Mike Mearls is: The Game Designer.

 

[Glyfair]

I suspect it'll look more like the Complete Mage [Reserve] feats than "magic missile all day".

I don't think so. They have said "once you run out of spells you won't be useless" whereas reserve feats are "as long as you save a spell you won't be useless."

 

[Glyfair]

The 2008 PHB thread has some information from the Israeli distributor of what books to look for in 2008. Arcane magic, melee combat, dragons and some other stuff all get books. Unless gnomes will be in the arcane magic splatbook, reappearing in "an early supplement" might mean 2009.

Honestly, I hope that whatever PHB races they axe shows up, in at least draft form for 10 levels or so, on D&D Insider.

Half-orcs could be in the melee combat book.

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

Huh? I was reading the thread, and this seemed glaringly out of place. Who is casting aspersions?

Me too-- since it follows my post, I hope my post wasn't seen as casting aspersions on Mearls...

 

[RFisher]

"Nope, we want you to sign up for D&D Insider." - Chris Thomassan

(>_<) Way to dowse my enthusiasm, Wizards! (9_9)

(^_^)

 

[mhacdebhandia]

When are gnomes coming back?

None of the leaked 2008 books seem to be an obvious home for them.

What about the Monster Manual?

They've commented that the Player's Handbook and the Monster Manual will give you everything you need to play a goblin PC - so why not gnomes?

 

[Legildur]

Just to share a little laugh, I noticed the reference to dndinsider.com above and went to the page, clicked to add it to Favorites and went to rename it as simply '4th Edition', but accidently hit the shift key and typed '$th Edition' instead.

Anyway, no idea yet whether my groups will migrate to 4th Edition (we've been playing The World's Largest Dungeon for 2 years and just made 8th level), but the 'fixes' to the magic item creation system sound great to me.

 

[Glyfair]

Oops. Wrong thread.

 

[Talgian]

Mike Mearls is the lead developer for 4th edition. The other panelists where Rich Baker, Andy Collins and Bill Slavesiek.

Is this right? I thought all the other information, like the videos and the stuff at Wizards indicates that Collins, Cordell, and Heinsoo are the leads, and Mearls is under them.