4E died in 2012 and the playtest started.
Calling 4e "dead" in 2012 is overstating things. It wasn't receiving regular print releases but was still receiving active support, including through new organized play campaigns. Over the last couple of years we've seen a transition from supporting 4e, to supporting both 4e and 5e, to supporting only 5e in the last few months.
I dont really care. I am impressed though - I defy anyone to link a 2007 post of theirs about the future of D&D that's as close as that one.
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When time travel is invented the first thing I'll use it for is to go back x number of years to make a more accurate prediction of WotC's Dnd plans...
The whole "modularity" thing is kind of hard to determine until we get more releases beyond the core game.
4E died in 2012 and the playtest started.Calling 4e "dead" in 2012 is overstating things. It wasn't receiving regular print releases but was still receiving active support, including through new organized play campaigns. Over the last couple of years we've seen a transition from supporting 4e, to supporting both 4e and 5e, to supporting only 5e in the last few months.
Last time I looked, Dungeon and Dragon stopped in December of 2013 with new items and paragon paths and adventures. So technically 4E stopped being supported only for the past 7 months.
Holy cow this prediction was SPOT ON. How could you know all this back in 2007!?If by "spot on" you mean "off by two whole years", sure.
What I read from his post was "the buzz of 5th edition leaks and within a few months it is announced at the 2012 Gen Con." So that's an announcement that he predicted coming in 2012, not the full release. Wasn't this exactly accurate?
I also remember in the early convention panels with the 5th edition dev team they were all about how modular 5th edition was going to be and how you could play it to be similar to any of the previous editions just by choosing which rules to incorporate in your game. Again, exactly as the original poster here predicted. Maybe WotC has gone back on that idea over the course of the playtest, but they definitely were saying that about the game in 2012.
What I read from his post was "the buzz of 5th edition leaks and within a few months it is announced at the 2012 Gen Con."
I read that, too. I also read, "So after another 4 years, 2012 will see the release of 5th edition." So who knows what the OP meant. He refers to 2012 as both the release and the announcement date. It's possible that he imagined the announcement and release happening in the same year, which normally wouldn't be inconceivable but which the two-year playtest process made an impossibility.
I also remember in the early convention panels with the 5th edition dev team they were all about how modular 5th edition was going to be and how you could play it to be similar to any of the previous editions just by choosing which rules to incorporate in your game. Again, exactly as the original poster here predicted. Maybe WotC has gone back on that idea over the course of the playtest, but they definitely were saying that about the game in 2012.
Possibly. I wasn't following the modularity thing that closely back then (it's probably the least exciting part of 5e to me). Either way, it's certainly not the case at release that all rules options are considered equally official or canonical.