D&D 5E review!

Julian Grimm · Post by **Julian Grimm** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 7:25 pm

Link
I'll skip this one.
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Rigon · Post by **Rigon** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 7:46 pm

Too funny.
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Bowbe · Post by **Bowbe** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 12:16 am

Roils with hilarity, and sums up 4e quite skeweringly.

Go0gleplex · Post by **Go0gleplex** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 12:22 am

Sounds like an X-files report...the truth...but noone will believe it...
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DangerDwarf · Post by **DangerDwarf** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 12:27 am

You guys are just haters. 5e is gonna be awesome!

Truthfully, the review was mediocre. The subject matter has all sorts of excellent things you could poke fun at and satirize but this fell flat on it's face by rehashing the same stuff in a less than creative way.

Comedy is dead.

Lord Dynel · Post by **Lord Dynel** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 12:40 am

Bowbe wrote:
Roils with hilarity, and sums up 4e quite skeweringly.

I'll give this the ol' +1.

Too funny, JG...thanks for the link!
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serleran · Post by **serleran** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 1:41 am

I didn't see a whole lot in there that hasn't been said before -- maybe just coiled up into a single location, but certainly not original.
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Hrolfgar · Post by **Hrolfgar** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 2:39 am

When is 4.5 going to be released?

Grendel T. Troll · Post by **Grendel T. Troll** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 3:10 am

Hrolfgar wrote:
When is 4.5 going to be released?

Probably when the current 4e fans get too comfortable with the rules...
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Lord Dynel · Post by **Lord Dynel** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 10:58 am

Heh...they said that ther wasn't going to be a "4.5" - I'm guessing on "4th Edition Revised."

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DangerDwarf · Post by **DangerDwarf** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 11:45 am

Won't happen. With the improvements in gaming technology 4e was equipped with an auto-patcher. Through the DDI and annual PHB updates, the auto-patcher gives us the far more seamless ability to gradually upgrade the game engine in the background without interrupting play. With 63% less bitterness too.

Post by **Breakdaddy** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 12:49 pm

DangerDwarf wrote:
...Comedy is dead.

You, sir, have never hung out with the TLG crew at Gen Con.

DangerDwarf · Post by **DangerDwarf** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 12:54 pm

Breakdaddy wrote:
You, sir, have never hung out with the TLG crew at Gen Con.

Somethng I hope to remedy some day.

Julian Grimm · Post by **Julian Grimm** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 1:38 pm

DangerDwarf wrote:
Won't happen. With the improvements in gaming technology 4e was equipped with an auto-patcher. Through the DDI and annual PHB updates, the auto-patcher gives us the far more seamless ability to gradually upgrade the game engine in the background without interrupting play. With 63% less bitterness too.

The auto patch system is based on the .net framework. Which means it has a higher than average chance of getting a virus. Plus it only works when service pack 2 is installed. WOTC has tried to gloss these issues over with their 'I'm 4e' and 'Sahara' ad campaigns but the have finally broke and decided to push the release of wind...err...d20 7 up.
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DangerDwarf · Post by **DangerDwarf** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 1:44 pm

Julian Grimm wrote:
The auto patch system is based on the .net framework. Which means it has a higher than average chance of getting a virus.

Ah, but WotC in a rare moment of foresight is integrating Mordenkainen's Faithful Virus Suite 2009 as a bonus for all DDI subscribers. Drawmij's Intarwebz Toolbox is also planned for release sometime in the next 3 month to 5 years with a promise to not charge subscribers for it until they actually maybe get it to go live without crashing their system.

Pssshhh. Naysayer.

yell0w_lantern · Post by **yell0w_lantern** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 3:22 pm

I don't get it.

Lord Dynel · Post by **Lord Dynel** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 11:57 pm

DD, I hope you don't mean you think there won't be additional editions of D&D.

With additional PHB's come additional "stuff," and with additional "stuff" comes more power creep, more chance that something will be broken, and more things that potentially need "patched"

There will be a point in time where the opinion is rampant that the 4e rules are collapsing under their own weight and classes or powers or what-ever-the-hell 4e actually does is getting more powerful now in PHB V and it's making PHB II & III worthless, or some other power creep baloney. There will come a time, I'd imagine, when the patches need patches it'll be the end of 4e.

Not that it matters one teensy bit to me, though.
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DangerDwarf · Post by **DangerDwarf** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 12:03 am

Nah dude. If I'm using terms like RPG technology and patches its a pretty safe bet I'm goofing off.

Benoist · Post by **Benoist** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 2:07 am

LOL. The 5th ed link of the OP made me laugh. Funny stuff.
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froglegg · Post by **froglegg** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 5:46 am

Wow this was like hitting the hornet's nest at RPG.NET. I love the fall out.