5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons Announced

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5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons Announced

Posted by Soulskill on Monday January 9, 2012 @07:53AM from the roll-for-fan-support-initiative dept.

New submitter lrsach01 writes "Wizards of the Coast has announced a 'new iteration' of their Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. Early information says the game will be more inclusive, with a basic rule set that 'builds out.' This Spring, WotC will be 'conducting ongoing open playtests with the gaming community to gather feedback on the new iteration of the game as we develop it.'"

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Re:exponential version growth by nitehawk214 · 2012-01-09 07:58 · Score: 4, Funny

2013 - SQL edition (based on Forth misspelling)

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Re:exponential version growth by LWATCDR · 2012-01-09 08:01 · Score: 4, Funny

They had to replace the Forth edition. It is an RPG people, RPN has no place in it.

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Translation. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-09 08:02 · Score: 5, Funny

Wizards of the Coast has announced they need more money because everyone who plays d&d has already bought all their old books.
So now it's time to obsolete everything again and make them start over.
1. Re:Translation. by Ihmhi · 2012-01-09 09:21 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  In other news, Wizards of the Coast is acquired by Houghton Mifflin. A statement by the company said they were proud of Wizards for putting out new editions so often but that if they shuffled around some tables and charts they could get a new edition out every year.
  
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Re:Nice to see it's still alive by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-09 08:07 · Score: 5, Funny

Started playing again recently after a long (15 year) break from gaming, and I have to say it has been a lot of fun.
So....how's the divorce going ....
Money by 0101000001001010 · 2012-01-09 08:09 · Score: 4, Funny

Don't they realize that the more often they change the ruleset the more often players have to spend money buying new books?
Oh...
Re:exponential version growth by nitehawk214 · 2012-01-09 08:12 · Score: 4, Funny

1970 - Waterfall
2000 - Iterative
2010 - Agile
Actually this explains exponential version growth quite well.

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Re:exponential version growth by Biff+Stu · 2012-01-09 08:15 · Score: 4, Funny

OMG! It's just like Firefox!
Re:exponential version growth by SJHillman · 2012-01-09 08:18 · Score: 5, Funny

And being the cool dad has turned your kids into nerds :-p
Re:exponential version growth by operagost · 2012-01-09 08:23 · Score: 5, Funny

In my day, we played the Zeroth Edition. In those days we created characters on parchment made from jaguar hides and used dice carved from the femur of a wooly mammoth. By the time I took the wooly mammoth with my trusty spear ("Katharina", I used to call her... although her real name was "Agnes"-- but that's another story), I was dead tired and needed a nap. By the time I woke up, the First Edition was out and I had missed my chance. I blame Richard Nixon, although I suspect James Knox Polk could also be implicated in this disaster.

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Re:But wait by PlatyPaul · 2012-01-09 08:23 · Score: 4, Funny

God forbid you ever try grappling....

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Re:Nice to see it's still alive by NabisOne · 2012-01-09 08:25 · Score: 5, Funny

Haha. She is OK with it. Probably because there is no fear of other women being involved....
Re:exponential version growth by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-09 08:29 · Score: 5, Funny

As a high-school parent, doing anything that insures your teen's celibacy (like D&D) is advantageous.
Re:exponential version growth by bigredradio · 2012-01-09 08:51 · Score: 5, Funny

Why is it reading your post, the voice I hear in my head is the comic book guy from the Simpsons. Just saying.

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AD&D 'real edition' by TiggertheMad · 2012-01-09 10:47 · Score: 4, Funny

In those days we created characters on parchment made from jaguar hides and used dice carved from the femur of a wooly mammoth.

Bah, you whippersnappers have it easy. In my day, we didn't play D&D, we just went outside an stabbed real beholders and dragons...

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