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Is 5e really going to be called D&D Next???

Started by Spinachcat, February 05, 2014, 02:45:28 AM

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Benoist

#30
February 06, 2014, 12:56:20 PM
White Wolf called. It wants its "Game: The Entitling" schtick back. :D

Sacrosanct

#31
February 06, 2014, 01:44:11 PM
By Edition:

OD&D: Only experienced DMs need rules (and only they can make sense out of them anyway)
AD&D 1e:  Gonna ignore half of these charts anyway
AD&D 2e: Choose from one of 8,324 campaign settings
B/X, BECMI: Who needs detailed rules?  Roll the damn dice and play
3.x: Catered towards rules mastery.  Screw the DM
4e: Special snowflake edition.  Everyone gets a ribbon
5e: TBD
D&D is not an "everyone gets a ribbon" game.  If you\'re stupid, your PC will die.  If you\'re an asshole, your PC will die (probably from the other PCs).  If you\'re unlucky, your PC may die.  Point?  PC\'s die.  Get over it and roll up a new one.

Bill

#32
February 06, 2014, 02:35:13 PM
Quote from: flyerfan1991;729642Steve Jackson might not be so amused, however.

Better make it DIRPS then.

Kravell

#33
February 06, 2014, 04:44:07 PM
When play testing started over a year ago the name did bother several play testers. I've been playing a few months now and I no longer notice it. I know I don't like 5th edition as a name.

Skywalker

#34
February 06, 2014, 05:34:13 PM
It should be "D&D 10,000".

I will be calling it 5e, regardless.

YourSwordisMine

#35
February 06, 2014, 06:26:15 PM
Quote from: Sacrosanct;729665By Edition:

OD&D: Only experienced DMs need rules (and only they can make sense out of them anyway)
AD&D 1e:  Gonna ignore half of these charts anyway
AD&D 2e: Choose from one of 8,324 campaign settings
B/X, BECMI: Who needs detailed rules?  Roll the damn dice and play
3.x: Catered towards rules mastery.  Screw the DM
4e: Special snowflake edition.  Everyone gets a ribbon
5e: Can't we all just get along?

FIFM
Quote from: ExploderwizardStarting out as fully formed awesome and riding the awesome train across a flat plane to awesome town just doesn\'t feel like D&D. :)

Quote from: ExploderwizardThe interwebs are like Tahiti - its a magical place.

Omega

#36
February 06, 2014, 08:20:00 PM
Quote from: YourSwordisMine;729501Would rather have this than the Xtreme nonsense that was pretty popular...

D&D Xtreme would make 4e look OSR, and give Exalted a run for its money...

*shudder* I need some brain bleach now...


The mutated deformed demonic offspring of Exalted and Rifts...

/wrists

D&D Babies, Teen D&D, Kid D&D. Young D&D! I hated that not-brief-enough era of cartoons. Unfortunately its... back.

YourSwordisMine

#37
February 06, 2014, 08:27:25 PM
Quote from: Omega;729728D&D Babies, Teen D&D, Kid D&D. Young D&D! I hated that not-brief-enough era of cartoons. Unfortunately its... back.

I'd watch D&D Babies though!

Teen D&D could be fun if done right
Quote from: ExploderwizardStarting out as fully formed awesome and riding the awesome train across a flat plane to awesome town just doesn\'t feel like D&D. :)

Quote from: ExploderwizardThe interwebs are like Tahiti - its a magical place.

flyerfan1991

#38
February 06, 2014, 08:47:08 PM
Quote from: Bill;729679Better make it DIRPS then.

I'd vote for DRIPS, myself.

Omega

#39
February 06, 2014, 08:56:57 PM
Quote from: S'mon;729603From


Following a launch weekend on February 15-16, 2014, "Scourge of the Sword Coast" ran from February 19, 2014 to May 7, 2014.

Shannon's use of past tense for future events is kinda weird, like he's sitting at the end of the universe looking back over Creation. :D

Obvious railroading!

Omega

#40
February 06, 2014, 08:59:02 PM
Quote from: Benoist;729662White Wolf called. It wants its "Game: The Entitling" schtick back. :D

That would be D&D: The Looting

Novastar

#41
February 07, 2014, 12:13:48 AM
D&D: Over 9000!!! Edition
Quote from: dragoner;776244Mechanical character builds remind me of something like picking the shoe in monopoly, it isn\'t what I play rpg\'s for.

Sacrosanct

#42
February 07, 2014, 12:23:00 AM
D&D: Revenge of the DM (seeing as how Next is the first edition since AD&D to specifically call out that DMs are the ones running the game and therefore they make the rulings)
D&D is not an "everyone gets a ribbon" game.  If you\'re stupid, your PC will die.  If you\'re an asshole, your PC will die (probably from the other PCs).  If you\'re unlucky, your PC may die.  Point?  PC\'s die.  Get over it and roll up a new one.

Bill

#43
February 07, 2014, 10:26:40 AM
What about "Return of the DM" ?

After all, 4E removed the dm.....

Sacrosanct

#44
February 07, 2014, 11:03:04 AM
Quote from: Bill;729816What about "Return of the DM" ?

After all, 4E removed the dm.....

Ha!  Funny coincidence.  I say "Revenge of the DM", and you said "Return of the DM" for the same reasons.  Just like how it was originally "Revenge of the Jedi" and then went to "Return of the Jedi".  :D


Also, not just 4e.  3e made DMing way too much work than it was worth, especially trying to build up higher level NPCs.  It shift the game to torturing the DMs and implementing player entitlement (magic item wishlists, etc)
D&D is not an "everyone gets a ribbon" game.  If you\'re stupid, your PC will die.  If you\'re an asshole, your PC will die (probably from the other PCs).  If you\'re unlucky, your PC may die.  Point?  PC\'s die.  Get over it and roll up a new one.
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