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5e-ish
Jan 9, 2012 13:26:03 GMT -8
Post by gina on Jan 9, 2012 13:26:03 GMT -8
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5e-ish
Jan 9, 2012 13:50:16 GMT -8
Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2012 13:50:16 GMT -8
Well the rumors for this have been swirling for awhile now. I'm not really surprised, they tried to revamp things a bit with the essentials line but since they didn't want the 3.5 backlash they made sure to keep the status quo roughly the same. Like every generation before it though power creep has render 4e bloated and a little unweildy.
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5e-ish
Jan 10, 2012 8:42:01 GMT -8
Post by fray on Jan 10, 2012 8:42:01 GMT -8
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clanhanna
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Preferred Game Systems: Storyteller, O.R.E, Mongoose Traveller
Currently Playing: Vampire: The Masquerade, Vampire: The Dark Ages, D&D 5e
Currently Running: Vampire: The Dark Ages
Favorite Species of Monkey: Peanut-buttery Rhesus
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5e-ish
Jan 11, 2012 11:57:53 GMT -8
Post by clanhanna on Jan 11, 2012 11:57:53 GMT -8
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clanhanna
Journeyman Douchebag
The Muffin
Posts: 221
Preferred Game Systems: Storyteller, O.R.E, Mongoose Traveller
Currently Playing: Vampire: The Masquerade, Vampire: The Dark Ages, D&D 5e
Currently Running: Vampire: The Dark Ages
Favorite Species of Monkey: Peanut-buttery Rhesus
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5e-ish
Jan 11, 2012 12:11:03 GMT -8
Post by clanhanna on Jan 11, 2012 12:11:03 GMT -8
As I previously stated on the HJFB Group: Hasbro has a very definite product strategy: if a product makes $50 million per annum, it gets to continue for another year. If it doesn't, it gets dropped. When Hasbro bought WotC, Wizards tried to convince them that WotC as a whole was worth $50 million a year (Magic: The Gathering alone accounts for that). Hasbro said no, each product individually. D&D, despite being the single best-selling RPG product on the market (except maybe WH40K, for sheer dollar amount), does not do $50M per year. WotC doesn't want to lose D&D as a product. It's either publish 5th Edition, or D&D disappears forever (Hasbro will hold the rights, but will not publish it).
We could be looking at the end of Dungeons & Dragons.
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