[Deptheads] 4e

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It's from John Ptavia's report that Eric sent to all of us.


On 2/22/08 5:26 PM, "Janice Sellers" <janicemsj at gmail.com> wrote:

> And for those of us who are not part of the in crowd, can you please
> tell me where this came from and who wrote it?
> 
> Janice
> 
> On 2/22/08, Chris Carlson <ccarlson101 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> D&D 4th
>>> Ever since I was contracted by WotC and worked briefly with Chaz on ideas
>> for what
>>> became Chainmail, WotC discovered the money to be made selling miniatures.
>> I am
>>> NOT an expert on what 4th edition will entail, but apparently it is more
>> combat based and
>>> has a "screw role playing" mentality. I have seen the suggestions on the
>> listserve, and
>>> offer my own compromise on the subject. In May, we give D&D 4th edition
>> its own
>>> space. Keep D&D 3rd edition (or 3.5 or 3.75 or 3.927384, whatever the hell
>> they are up
>>> to now) in RPG where it belongs. Most people still think of D&D as the
>> original Role
>>> Playing Game, and moving it to collectibles right away would be a mistake.
>> Giving it a
>>> space of its own will give people a rallying point if they want to learn
>> what it is or see
>>> how it works. Conventions work best when you "give the people what they
>> want" (hence
>>> the feedback seminars), so I suggest we see how it goes, and decide after
>> May what to do
>>> with it afterwards. Even if it is more of a miniatures/collectibles game,
>> the players and
>>> GMs may still want the separate rooms that RPGs have for any
>> token/miniscule role-playing
>>> they come up with. Note, Chaz and myself were trying to sell Chainmail as
>> a large-scale
>>> miniatures battle in a D&D world system, so in the end maybe the
>> Miniatures room will be
>>> best for it. Version 3.0 had a book called the Miniatures Handbook that
>> had/has rules for
>>> large scale battles with D&D figures and rules(where did they get that?
>> hmmm). From
>>> what I've heard, however unreliable, D&D 4th may best be served by its own
>> space and own
>>> HQ separate from RPG, Collectibles, and Miniatures because it is a blend
>> all its own.
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