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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Asinjin on May 25, 2012, 10:14:03 AM

Title: D&D Next
Post by: Asinjin on May 25, 2012, 10:14:03 AM

I downloaded the playtest rules for the new edition.  Initial quick review is that it is closer to 3rd than 4th.

Title: Re: D&D Next
Post by: Windblade on May 25, 2012, 10:45:45 AM

That is pretty cool.  It will be nice to have content that we can use again.

Title: Re: D&D Next
Post by: Asinjin on May 25, 2012, 10:54:42 AM

First thing they stole from us: Channel Divinity.  Clerics get a power, not necessarily Turn Undead.

Title: Re: D&D Next
Post by: Valdis on May 25, 2012, 10:57:03 AM

Quick, copyright the rest!!  LoL...

Title: Re: D&D Next
Post by: Windblade on May 25, 2012, 11:34:38 AM

I like the name for it.  I was trying to think of a cool name for it.

Title: Re: D&D Next
Post by: Malchia on May 25, 2012, 01:01:54 PM

When does it release?

Title: Re: D&D Next
Post by: Asinjin on May 25, 2012, 02:01:03 PM

They plan to do a year of playtesting from what I have read, so 3Q 2013 at the earliest.

Title: Re: D&D Next
Post by: Asinjin on August 22, 2012, 12:43:21 PM

Got the next set of playtest material.

The races are back to 2nd edition format.  Three types of halflings, two types of dwarves, elves, and humans.  Made me smile.

Title: Re: D&D Next
Post by: Asinjin on August 22, 2012, 12:50:53 PM

More good news.   The alignments are back, with the addition of unaligned for Oozes and such.

Title: Re: D&D Next
Post by: Windblade on August 22, 2012, 03:34:25 PM

Sounds awesome.  Hopefully we will be able to incorporate a lot of it.

Title: Re: D&D Next
Post by: Asinjin on June 12, 2013, 05:43:36 PM

An update on things I've learned about D&D Next.

It won't be released until 2nd quarter 2014, supposedly.

Monte Cook was originally called in to help, but has left.

They are working hard to get the rights to D&D back in house (so Hasbro can back the movie).  One reason they are reportedly going to use pre-D&D material is because they have the rights to it.