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 Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 9:54 am Post subject: WOTC Confirms D&D 5E in New York Times |
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Let's just say that this is interesting and not entirely unexpected. The devil, as always, will be in the details.
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| So does it still make sense to offer 4ed material as a third party publisher? |
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Maybe? Depends on how quickly the 5E rollout happens, and whether the 4E audience wants more material now, or wants to wait and see.
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| Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 11:36 am Post subject: |
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I've only skimmed the articles, but my understanding is that this won't happen for awhile, and that they're giving a nod to Paizo's strategy of doing a public playtest.
Its going to be a while before they have a book on the shelf, even if this has already been underway.
All that aside, I agree with Wolfgang. Best to let the demand drive it, if at all.
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| So does it still make sense to offer 4ed material as a third party publisher? |
Although I'm still toiling away at my Ph.D. and haven't edited here in a while, I would suggest that offering 4e content in the magazine sells the magazine to people who want more 4e content, in the same way that offering PFRPG content in a magazine is appealing to players of PFRPG (and Mouseguard is to those players, and so on).
Cream rises to the top of the slush pile - and as long as excellent stuff is being written, stuff that Wolfgang and the editors believe gamers should get to see, then it doesn't hurt anyone to release it (and might actually sell people a magazine who wouldn't otherwise buy one)!
I can tell you this much: a new edition won't stop me from playing and running 4e, which is my system of choice (to play, to design for, and to edit). My other favorite game - Unknown Armies, which I'm about to start a new campaign for - has been out of print for almost a decade. If KQ offers cool content for a game I like and I can afford it, then I'll buy it!
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| I'm not up on the GSL. I know when it was in development there was a clause that let WotC suspend the license permanently with no notice. Did that make it into the final version? |
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| R.C, Jr wrote: |
| I'm not up on the GSL. I know when it was in development there was a clause that let WotC suspend the license permanently with no notice. Did that make it into the final version? |
I guess that is the question really. How draconian is WotC (or Hasbro's lawyers) going to be on their properties rights. Can we expect another internet sweeping purge of fan-created content for the new system after its made? Sadly, they seem pre-inclined to shoot themselves in the foot...
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However, the management in the D&D team has changed. So who knows what the new policy will be: more draconian, more open, or some tangent we don't know.
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| Wolfgang wrote: |
| However, the management in the D&D team has changed. So who knows what the new policy will be: more draconian, more open, or some tangent we don't know. |
Maybe we'll find out more from that up and coming KQ article hmmm? Guess we'll just have to wait and see...
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