In the context of a new edition, there are any number of ways that an edition after 4th edition could go, while still building on the foundation of the game.
Critical Bits for the week ending 2012-01-15
Awesome Dice: a dice-roller plugin for WordPress sites. http://t.co/DzvOy4Cg # RPG Countdown Best of 2011: Win $2011 for buying participating products or win $2011 worth of FLGS advertising. http://t.co/zDzEsKDt # New edition of D&D announced: http://t.co/PPo0OfZ4 (with corrected link) # RT @Wizards_DnD Check out the NYT article on future of #dnd http://t.co/ArYLeucc and check out […]
Where D&D is Heading; or, How the Internet Changed a Game
Where I talk about my opinions on the past and future of D&D, and then end up sounds like a cross between a Romantic poet and the lonely drunk at the end of the bar after a long night. Which in some cases is exactly the same thing.
The Pain of Publication III: Making the Most of your Work Sessions
The reality for most aspiring authors is that their writing has to give way to the realities of a full life outside of it. Most of the time, that means squeezing in time in between your job that pays you and other life activities. However, sometimes you can get lucky and have the opportunity to spend a large dedicated chunk of time writing without work getting in the way.
Dungeons & Dragons of Future Past
The 4th Edition of D&D brought about the only long campaign I’ve ever managed to run, and I attribute a large part of that to the ways the new edition changed the role of being a Dungeon Master and the tools it provided. After D&D Next was announced the online RPG community went crazy, and I saw a number of people sharing lamentations that 4th Edition was now “old” and “going away”. I’ve finally managed to wrangle my thoughts about D&D Next, and they are overwhelming in their hope that whatever D&D Next is it allows me to continue running 4e D&D.
Chatty’s 2nd Anniversary at Critical-Hits: The Enthusiastic Storyteller
In which Chatty realizes he’s been blogging at this here website for two whole years… and then indulges in good old fashion navel gazing for a few more hundred words.
It Slices, It Dices, It Possibly Does The THAC0
I’m sure by now you’ve heard the news. Beyoncé Knowles has given birth to a new edition of Dungeons and Dragons, and the Internets are ablaze. The epic ears of the Wizards of the Coast are now listening to user feedback more than ever before, and in their direction everyone’s hopes and dreams for their favorite game have been launched. The system is rumored to be many things, two of the most common of these being “just another money grab” and “modular”. As my experiences with the R&D team over the past couple years have not included any signs of them being were-packrats who hunt shinies when the moon is full, I can only speculate about the game’s modularity. As it happens, that is the thing that gives me the most hope and the most worry about the upcoming changes to D&D.
New Edition of “Dungeons & Dragons” Announced
This morning, in the New York Times, it was announced that Wizards of the Coast is working on the new edition of Dungeons & Dragons – and you can be involved.
Critical Bits for the week ending 2012-01-08
RT @DanielSolis: And the winner of the Thousand-Year Game Design Challenge is… http://t.co/Y5IhuRLu # RT @gnomestew: Gnome Stew just launched New Year, New Game, a challenge to tabletop RPG GMs: Run a new game in 2012. http://t.co/vwxhcgQb # D&D Encounters as GMing Bootcamp on @gnomestew http://t.co/tZ6OsgoW # RT @LodestoneDavid: Purple Pawn's Top 10 Game News […]
The Architect DM: Winging It
Let me know if this situation sounds familiar to you: You’re the DM/GM for your gaming group and you’ve just wrapped up an adventure, and you have at least a whole week until the next one. You sit down the next day, or even that very night, and start the adventure planning process. Over the next few days you stay on track but before you know it the next adventure is looming and you feel like despite your best efforts the game is still not as ready as you feel it should be.
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