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WotC's Nathan Stewart: "Story, Story, Story"; and IS D&D a Tabletop Game?
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<blockquote data-quote="Trickster Spirit" data-source="post: 7667692" data-attributes="member: 6701829"><p>Has any edition of D&D ever provided ALL of the tools necessary for that? </p><p></p><p>Let's say YOUR story is about a world where psionics play a major role. 2E, 3.0 and 3.5 didn't have psionics at release either, and 4E didn't introduce psionic classes until PHB 3. 5E </p><p></p><p>And psionics is a relatively "big" subsystem - let's say you want to tell stories about a party where the characters are all dragons? If you're not playing 2E or willing to convert Council of Worms to your edition of choice, they're not giving you the tools you need for your story. A story where people use Incarnum to save the world? If you're not playing 3.5 or willing to convert Magic of Incarnum to your edition of choice, they're not giving you the tools you need for your story. A fairy tale story where the playable races are gingerbread men, nutcrackers, tooth fairies and ? No edition of D&D has ever given you all the tools you need for your story.</p><p></p><p>Anyone with an imagination to speak of can come up with a story that's not covered by the rules of D&D. So where should the cut-off be? Do we say psionics and playable dragons make the cut, because more people bought those books in past editions, but for incarnum and playable gingerbread men, you're on your own?</p><p></p><p>5E's like any other edition. You start with the core, which is pretty recognizable the "core" of D&D, and then new things get tacked on to it. Maybe those new things are the things you're interested in, maybe they're not. Psionics is a good bet, though depending on how long you're willing to wait for those rules before jumping ship for another RPG, perhaps not in a timeframe while you're still playing the game.</p><p></p><p>The design team isn't cackling with glee every time someone asks for a splatbook and they joyously refuse. It's just that they've <em>just</em> put out a pretty complete core ruleset, and aren't going to bend over backwards to fill in every single niche expansion product just because <em>someone</em> would buy it. This is the slow and steady wins the race edition, which was built on fan input - when the general consensus is the game needs a psionics expansion (or playable dragons, or Incarnum, or a FRCS, or whatever) to move forward, I expect we'll see it soon after.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Trickster Spirit, post: 7667692, member: 6701829"] Has any edition of D&D ever provided ALL of the tools necessary for that? Let's say YOUR story is about a world where psionics play a major role. 2E, 3.0 and 3.5 didn't have psionics at release either, and 4E didn't introduce psionic classes until PHB 3. 5E And psionics is a relatively "big" subsystem - let's say you want to tell stories about a party where the characters are all dragons? If you're not playing 2E or willing to convert Council of Worms to your edition of choice, they're not giving you the tools you need for your story. A story where people use Incarnum to save the world? If you're not playing 3.5 or willing to convert Magic of Incarnum to your edition of choice, they're not giving you the tools you need for your story. A fairy tale story where the playable races are gingerbread men, nutcrackers, tooth fairies and ? No edition of D&D has ever given you all the tools you need for your story. Anyone with an imagination to speak of can come up with a story that's not covered by the rules of D&D. So where should the cut-off be? Do we say psionics and playable dragons make the cut, because more people bought those books in past editions, but for incarnum and playable gingerbread men, you're on your own? 5E's like any other edition. You start with the core, which is pretty recognizable the "core" of D&D, and then new things get tacked on to it. Maybe those new things are the things you're interested in, maybe they're not. Psionics is a good bet, though depending on how long you're willing to wait for those rules before jumping ship for another RPG, perhaps not in a timeframe while you're still playing the game. The design team isn't cackling with glee every time someone asks for a splatbook and they joyously refuse. It's just that they've [i]just[/i] put out a pretty complete core ruleset, and aren't going to bend over backwards to fill in every single niche expansion product just because [i]someone[/i] would buy it. This is the slow and steady wins the race edition, which was built on fan input - when the general consensus is the game needs a psionics expansion (or playable dragons, or Incarnum, or a FRCS, or whatever) to move forward, I expect we'll see it soon after. [/QUOTE]
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