Fala do Ed Geenwood na Fan Expo 2013 sobre o DDN.

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Fonte: ENWorld

Compilação de tweets do Morrus (@Morrus) com os principais assuntos

Então eles vão esperar ate 2015 pra lançar um sistema que não vai ser muito diferente do playteste atual

Eu tomaria qualquer informação que venha do Bosqueverde com alguma suspeita. Inclusive o que ele escreve sobre Forgotten Realms. 

O que eu achei mais interessa na EnWorld não foi isso, mas a entrevista com o Cordell e Schawlb na AICN. Os trechos mais interessantes:

Abstruse: So modularity has been a big part of the entire concept behind it, but it’s not something we’ve seen in the way it’s been presented in the playtest. Is that something we’re going to see in the future?
 
Bruce Cordell: I would say a lot of the modularity comes from the idea that you can evoke any previous edition with the right set of rules combinations. If you want to use feats, if you don’t want to use feats, if you want to use skills, if you don’t want to use skills. And the plan is for the Dungeon Master’s Guide to have more explicit modules and those things end up presented to the playtest community.
 
Robert J. Schwalb: And largely I think that’s due to the fact that our focus up until this point has been to really nail down the core. Get the core engine so it sings and works exactly the way we want it to work and make sure that all the numbers are right. Once we have a solid foundation, we can then build whatever pieces we want. And we’ll be rigorous about the approach we take about evolving those mechanisms, but it’s not something we need to throw out the public through playtest because we know once we have the foundation, we know what dials to turn and what buttons to push to make sure those pieces all work together. And we’re starting to see how those module units will come into play with the direction that feats have taken and our ability check resolution and how skills are going to start feeding back in.
 
Abstruse: That’s one thing that, the moment I heard about it, it was one of those...”Why the hell haven’t we been doing this forever?!” is the way you’re doing skills through abilities and saving throws through abilities. It was the same to me as AC flipping to be the to-hit number back in 3rd Edition with no tables or anything. That’s so simple and elegant, why the hell haven’t we been doing that for twenty years?
 
Robert J. Schwalb: D&D is a game that’s steeped in tradition and the methods by which we understand how to play the game kind of feed back into the language game we’re playing when we talk about D&D. So any kind of radical departures from those mechanisms changes the way we talk about that game. Now obviously something like getting rid of THAC0, for example, was probably the best thing to happen to D&D. Now if you say THAC0 to someone who comes into D&D post 3rd Edition, they don’t know what you’re talking about. And that causes a sort of language fuzz. Certainly you can get someone to come in and say “I have a brilliant vision for how D&D should play and will radically overhaul this game.” So what happens is they blow up D&D. We saw – as much as I love 4th Edition – 4e did just that. “We’re going to radically redesign D&D” and it blew it up and now we have a language problem. Because what I think about D&D is no longer true to these people who play D&D.

E esse trecho é engraçado porque parece que até mesmo os designers esquecem que Minions existem.

Robert J. Schwalb: I think what 4th Edition does really well is it simulates that really cool combat encounter that you had in 1st, 2nd, or 3rd Edition where all sorts of things are going on. It does that really well. It doesn’t do a fight with three or four kobolds well at all.And you want that level of detail when you’re doing the big set-piece fight with the villain riding the Dracolich and the army of undead and the terrain can be an obstacle that’s actually attacking you and doing all sorts of cool stuff. And those kinds of fights, you want them to go on for an hour. You want to dig your nails in and you’re terrified. You have no idea what’s going to happen. But then, the other part of D&D is that I just want to murder a bunch of goblins and move onto the next area.

E esse trecho é engraçado porque parece que até mesmo os designers esquecem que Minions existem.

Fingir que a 4e nunca existiu é algo que eles vem fazendo desde o inicio 

Não entendi qual é a do Bruce Cordell. Tá, ele até tem a experiência de ter trabalhado no design do Next, mas ele ainda pode  responder por isso?

Essa entrevista foi feita na Space City Con, que aconteceu no começo do mês (2-4 de Agosto, segundo o blog do Cordell. Creio que nessa época ele ainda era funcionário da Wizards, ou ao menos tinha acabado de sair dela (sem contar que foi feita também com o atual Chefe do R&D e substituto dele).

Mas, a "despedida" dele foi em julho já (16, segundo o mesmo blog). Enfim, não é o fim do mundo. Só achei estranho.

O contrato dele pode ter durado até o começo de Agosto ou fim de Julho e\ou ele provavelmente já tinha confirmado a presença na Space City Con para falar sobre D&D Next. E não creio que vão mudar todo o Next pela saída dele, ao menos não em duas semanas. 

a 4e mais ascensível ao tentar remover tudo o que ela fazia de diferente.

Odinha, meus olhos, meus pobres olhos!

(E como você cometeu esse erro mais de uma vez, Oda, lembre-se: Acessível é a palavra que você queria escrever. ;) )