As some of you have realised when you logged into Wizards' D&D site today,
www.wizards.com/DnD/Article.as… , you found out that they're planning to work on the Fifth Edition of the game.
My snippish, and initial response? Damn, I'm sure glad I downloaded all the books from BitTorrent. If I had bought them all, would I be pissed off! (Note to the Admins: This is a Joke. It wasn't intended to break any TOS, but I'll remove it upon request anyway.)
Then I started thinking: Unlike some more seasoned D&D players, I actually learned the game not in 2nd Edition, when it was during the 80s, but the 4th Edition, last year. I liked the 4th Edition because it was easy to pick up and play, and while not perfect, had plenty of optimization options (unlike 3rd Edition Essentials) for me to play with. I'm also starting to learn how to DM using 4th Edition.
I believe taht my DM stills will no doubt shine bright when I make the transition to 5th Edition. So much so that, when I get enough of the story done to make an Hubworld Campaign, it will be in 5th Edition. Maybe even be 5th Edition GSL legal if that's possible. I consider it somethign for me to shoot for in the future.
I understand that not everybody's going to be happy with the edition change. Heck, people were up in arms when they changed the official card frame in Magic: The Gathering (I for one loved it, especially with how they customised it in future sets (Planeshifted, Futureshifted (my personal fave), Planeswalker Cards, Level Up, and now Transformable doublesided cards.) However, I agree with Shelly Mazzanoble when she said that you don't have to play 4th Edition (or 5th Edition) if you don't have to. In fact, that's why Pathfinder got made. I, however, never learned 3ed Edition outside of DDO, and that's only because of Free Points in Fortune Cards and that my computer can actually run the game. Because of this, I had no opinion toward 3rd/3.5/Pathfinder and consider 4th Edition D&D my RPG of choice.
However, I do look forward to the development of 5th edition--as I work on my D&D and Gaming skills in the current edition--with an open mind and hope that it's an improvement over the previous iteration. (And like I said, Hubworld will be set in the 5th Edition)
But until that time comes, I hope you enjoy the Hubworld story--which I'll begin later on tonight--and look forward to the eventual Campaign Setting version.
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