WotC's release schedule Jan - Apr ´08. 4th Edition?

[blargney the second]

Maybe they're just pulling the plug on D&D. *shrug*

 

[Knightfall]

Looks very very slim for D&D, which could just mean the sky is falling

Link?
Never mind, I see now.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I officially predict that 4E is coming.

It's been coming since the 1970s. I officially predict that 8E is coming.

 

[Brown Jenkin]

The schedule plus all the licenses being pulled says 4e to me. And for that I am happy. Some of us want our 4e.

 

[Razz]

Totally lame stuff so far. At least Eberron fans get a book coming.

I refuse to believe that's the whole catalog for the first quarter of 2008. Something is missing. They have to be.

Where are the WotC staff to question when you really need them?

 

[Anti-Sean]

Will you marry me?

 

[Kunimatyu]

It occurs to me that one of the big draws for the Digital Initiative could be that it'll be the place where we'll get all our 4th Edition information. If WotC announces the DI at Gencon, then announces 4E at XP, it could ramp things up slightly.

 

[BadMojo]

Totally lame stuff so far. At least Eberron fans get a book coming.

I refuse to believe that's the whole catalog for the first quarter of 2008. Something is missing. They have to be.

Where are the WotC staff to question when you really need them?

I'd be shocked if that was the whole catalog as well. I think it's a given that there's going to be more Eberron and FR fiction and I hope there's another book or adventure yet to be announced.

Maybe Scott Rouse could comment, or perhaps Ari can let us know if he has any work for WotC that hasn't been released yet?

 

[MoogleEmpMog]

The schedule plus all the licenses being pulled says 4e to me. And for that I am happy. Some of us want our 4e.

QFT.

WotC has shown they can design a strictly-better d20 rulesset than 3.5 without making it incompatible with a majority of 3.5 crunch: Star Wars Saga. Heck, they managed to do that while going cross-genre and attempting (with a fair degree of success) to emulate source material outside their control - yet it's still THAT much better, and it's still at least 80-90% compatible with everything but the standard d20 magic system.

I was hoping they would work out the kinks of the great bugaboo of D&D, the magic system, in a d20 Modern Saga. However, if they want to take the plunge and risk of putting whatever fix they end up with directly into 4e, so be it. I trust their current design team to make a massive upgrade to the game.

Still, I'm not sure the release schedule means much.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

It occurs to me that one of the big draws for the Digital Initiative could be that it'll be the place where we'll get all our 4th Edition information. If WotC announces the DI at Gencon, then announces 4E at XP, it could ramp things up slightly.

All that information would show up everywhere else on the Internet immediately anyway.