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Hey! Where are the wallpapers for Second Darkness? Chop chop people! How am I suppose to know what AP you guys are on if it's not staring me in the face when I start my computer?

kk, thanks.

The adepts of the Technic League scour the plains for valuable wreckage and guard the secrets of that wreckage closely. They serve the Black Sovereign, essentially a barbaric despot in the Conan mold, but they do not share everything they know with him.

I am imagining a cult off-shoot the Technic League, who worship a piece of wreckage as god. They are housed in a cave complex that extends deep into the earth where at the heart is an entrance to a buried peice of the wreckage. This is their shrine. This is where all honor and glory is bestowed upon their most sacred relic: The Flat Screen television with endless re-runs from the digital library of Monty Python skits and movies...

So with 4th edition edition announced, we can finally begin speculation on 5th edition (hey, you clicked the link to get here, not me).

So after another 4 years, 2012 will see the release of 5th edition. Here's what I predict:

After another crop of game designers take over after doing all the sweat work for 4th edition, they begin to cross-check their own "House Rules" and realize that if house rule A and House rule B replaced canon, and if 4th ed. mechanic was tweaked, just so, they would have a vastly superior game. Like any good Game Designer, they begin hosting D&D sessions (online of course via the DI) with fellow WoTC employees. Sure enough, their players are hooked and soon the buzz of 5th edition leaks and within a few months it is announced at the 2012 Gen Con.

What does this new edition entail?

It recognizes that the D&D game is best when customizeable. In older editions, when there wasn't a rule, the DM "winged", and if the DM was good at their role, all were happy. So 5th edition will invilve "Game Pieces" that you mix-and-match to create the game that you and your players wish to play. Pieces like (martial combat system) or (Low magic system) or even (character advancement system). In fact, D&D has multiple versions of the same piece so you can truly customize in a plethora of ways. For example you can use the (vancean magic system) or the (spell point magic system) which brings us to where the complexity of 5th edition comes in: Some pieces are exclusive of each other. That is you cannot have both pieces in the same game. Some pieces are inclusive (if A then B), etc.

You see, these game designers realized that the player base is not only capable of designing their own game, it is pretty much a given that no two games are alike. The only constant is the language we use (to hit rolls, Armor Class, and Magic Missile).

2012 becomes known as The Year D&D was Liberated from the New Edition Cure-All caused by Sagging Sales Syndrome (a common malady for book publishers - What edition is your copy of "Lord of the Rings"?)

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