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WotC Pleads the Fifth… Edition of D&D


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?Winter is coming, and so is Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition, apparently. More importantly, Wizards of the Coast is actually looking for help in creating it. From WotC’s announcement:

he goals we have set for ourselves are by no means trivial or easy.
By involving you in this process, we can build a set of D&D rules
that incorporate the wants and desires of D&D gamers around the
world. We want to create a flexible game, rich with options for players
and DMs to embrace or reject as they see fit, a game that brings D&D
fans together rather than serves as one more category to splinter us
apart.

We have begun obtaining feedback from a limited Friends &
Family playtest consisting of internal employees and their gaming groups
and soon we will be expanding that group to consist of members from our
existing body of playtesters. Then at the D&D Experience convention in late January, Wizards of the Coast will conduct a special playtest of ideas currently in development. The D&D Experience will be moving to Gen Con
in 2013, so as a convention special this year, we will be offering show
attendees a first-look at a draft of the new set of rules. Then
beginning sometime in the spring, we will begin open playtesting.
Through our web site, we will release a growing set of rules, classes,
monsters and other materials for your study and feedback. We seek to
reach as many people as possible, from the gamer who just started with
D&D last week to the gaming group that has been together since the
early-1970s. For this process to work, we want to give a voice to all D&D fans and players of all previous editions of the game.

All those goofy-ass gods of the Forgotten Realms help me, but I’m really excited for this. I’ve been jonesing to get back into D&D for a while, but everything I’ve heard about the last edition has left me too apprehensive to get started. Hopefully with all this player input, the 5th Edition will be great, although it’s probably just as plausible that having one million insane role-players demanding their equally insane preferences will result in the most schizophrenic RPG of all time. Enh, as long as I don’t have to buy any miniatures, I’ll probably give it a shot. Thanks to Kevin T. for the tip.