Sort of big news, if not really comic related.

[his_spiffynesss]

It's been announced recently that Wizards of the Coast is developing Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition. And for a change they are supposed to be crowdsourcing the development, though how that exactly is going to work I don't know. Still, I thought there should be some folk here who might be interested in the news.

For Legality, I pulled out an old copy of Steve Jackson's Fantasy Gamer Magazine one of their humor features was Murphy's Rules, a one page cartoon with various examples of dubious rules from various games.

Comments

[lonewolf23k]

I moved away from D&D in favor of Pathfinder ages ago, and I haven't looked back since. I doubt a 5th edition of D&D now is going to change my mind.

[his_spiffynesss]

Heck, I've rediscovered 2nd Edition and have come to be rather partial to it.

[lonewolf23k]

Actual 2nd edition, or RetroClone?

[his_spiffynesss]

Actual, I picked up the original books at the local used books store pretty cheap.

[halloweenjack]

Same here with me and my RPG group. Paizo is my master now!

[magus_69]

Have you heard about the Pathfinder comic coming out some time this year?

[nezchan]

Oh cool, I have the collected version of Murphy's Rules. It's an absolute riot.

[valismedsen]

Is this crowdsourcing something similar to what White Wolf did with the 20th Anniversary Edition of Vampire: The Masquerade?
If that's so, cool. I loved being able to give input on the V20 book! (Which looks beautiful on my shelf, LOL)

[arise]

That's what I'm hoping! *ended up with two copies, not complaining!* Hopefully the massive fanbase for D&D will mean even more diverse opinions (that are not edition wars) :D I think it's a pretty cool trend in general towards crowdsourcing, hope it continues.

[q99]

I'll look forward to 5ed. 4ed's cool sourcebooks have all come out.

Hope they go a bit more setting-heavy this time.

[his_spiffynesss]

That's what I always preferred about the TSR days. They were much more focused on creating new campaign worlds than revising the rules. Wizards with it's game balance OCD never really appealed to me.

[q99]

I liked 3ed- they didn't have many settings, but Eberron got a whole ton of cool stuff (and apparently the setting-heavy 2ed days were so setting heavy it affected the bottom line. People'd just buy a few they liked and not touch the others).

4ed's 'two books per setting,' and only the occasional general supplement like manual of the planes, was just too sparse.

[akodo_rokku]

I cannot develop any energy towards the next edition of D&D positive or negative at the moment, because all my heart and soul is wrapped up in Legend, the best charity RPG ever.

[vitruvian23]

Wow, I forgot how weak some of the picks for Murphy's Rules were. How is the ability to frag yourself with a Fire Ball any stranger or more dubious than the prospect of doing so with a grenade in real life?