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Linky linky. Blather text:
In this episode, it’s Dave Noonan flying solo this time along with R&D’s Chris Youngs, editor-in-chief of Dragon and Dungeon Magazines. We’ve been discussing the magazines quite a bit in recent days (take a look at Randy Buehler’s Digital Insider #6), so we wanted to take this opportunity to have a conversation with Chris regarding upcoming features, submissions, and what’s happening with both the barbarian and the Adventure Path.
Wah!!!
My rotten DM says that it has SoW spoilers and I'm not allowed to listen to it.
Wah!!!
My rotten DM says that it has SoW spoilers and I'm not allowed to listen to it.
Use your iPhone to grab it, on the way to work.
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Wah!!!
My rotten DM says that it has SoW spoilers and I'm not allowed to listen to it.
Eh, spoilers are minimal. well, except one they kinda hint at twice. But just don't pay attention to that part. If you want to know more without angering your DM, you can ask.
PS: If you're planning on sending Dungeon/Dragon submissions to WotC, they apparently don't like long adventure backgrounds- something about "if the PCs will never find out, we don't care" or somesuch. Odd, but whatever. They babble about it for a bit. Honestly, I understand both ways, and as a DM, I love excessive background and often spill it to the PCs after the adventure when plied with drinks, but I can run a good adventure without it.
But I digress.
Wah!!!
My rotten DM says that it has SoW spoilers and I'm not allowed to listen to it.
Eh, spoilers are minimal. well, except one they kinda hint at twice. But just don't pay attention to that part. If you want to know more without angering your DM, you can ask.
PS: If you're planning on sending Dungeon/Dragon submissions to WotC, they apparently don't like long adventure backgrounds- something about "if the PCs will never find out, we don't care" or somesuch. Odd, but whatever. They babble about it for a bit. Honestly, I understand both ways, and as a DM, I love excessive background and often spill it to the PCs after the adventure when plied with drinks, but I can run a good adventure without it.
But I digress.
It's definitely less of a concern than when the magazines were in print form, but there are still size considerations. And a lot of DMs don't like to have to wade through a lot of background that won't come into play in order to feel like they haven't missed anything important. But yeah, it could go both ways.
Wah!!!
My rotten DM says that it has SoW spoilers and I'm not allowed to listen to it.
Eh, spoilers are minimal. well, except one they kinda hint at twice. But just don't pay attention to that part. If you want to know more without angering your DM, you can ask.
PS: If you're planning on sending Dungeon/Dragon submissions to WotC, they apparently don't like long adventure backgrounds- something about "if the PCs will never find out, we don't care" or somesuch. Odd, but whatever. They babble about it for a bit. Honestly, I understand both ways, and as a DM, I love excessive background and often spill it to the PCs after the adventure when plied with drinks, but I can run a good adventure without it.
But I digress.
I think this has been true of dungeon submissions for a long time. I'm fairly sure I've read an editorial by Barbara Young admonishing authours not to put to much effort into material that the players won't ever discover.
I'm sure that this was also true of the Paizo era as well. In the Paizo era there seemed to be a tricky way around it - if you did something with a really cool Greyhawk link embedded in it I think Erik would get all excited and forget that he was supposed to automatically reject this sort of thing.
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I think Shaman is widely touted as the likely candidate for the Primal leader...
True. I'd forgotten that until after I posted, then I think I went to bed, leaving my stupidity for all to see.
As to the Asian classes... my "spurious" thinking is that there might be some method to the publishing plans of the Spooky Wizard by the Coast; namely, I think we will see products loosely tied in with each other thematically, something like this ---
2009: Eberron and the primal power source in PHBII
2010: Dark Sun and the psionic power source in PHBIII
and so on... if this line of thought holds, then we could see a 4e version of the Oriental Adventures setting tied in with the "ki" power source in a future PHB expansion, and the "shadow" power source tied in with Ravenloft... blah blah blah, Mau is talking out of his ass now and speculatiing wildy :P
I think Monk was mentioned to be in PHB III, so PHB III might be Psionic and Ki-based classes. But I'm good at remembering things wrong.
And I hadn't thought of them tying in the Power sources with the campaign releases. That's make sense, though.
Is Dark Sun confirmed as the setting after Eberron? I guess that sounds right; they do seem to want to jump on Dark Sun early. And I suppose an Oriental Adventures campaign could be in the works, but I thought they didn't have that license any more.
Side note: once you added "Spooky" to the WotC name, I immediately thought of the Arcane Brotherhood of Luskan from FR. It all makes sense now... :)
I need it to be March now...
Agreed!