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My name is Sérgio Bernardino (a.k.a. smpb), and I am a software engineer, hobbyist photographer, and all-around geek. I hail from Lisbon, Portugal. Feel free to save this information and contact me at any time.
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Dungeons & Dragons - The Way Forward →
I stopped playing D&D during the transition from the 3.5 Edition to the 4th1. I was somewhat burned out after playing the former for a long period of time without meaningful interruptions, and the new mechanics introduced by the latter did not grip me at all.
To see news of Wizards (or should I say, Hasbro) planning a new major edition a mere three years after the debut of the Fourth Edition (by comparison, the gap between the 3rd and 4th was eight years, with the 3.5 revision showing up roughly mid-cycle) really rings alarm bells to me. It looks clear now that the Fourth Edition wasn’t all that successful in stopping the increasing loss of players to the digital RPG front (such as MMO video games), and the like.
Having them boast that, this time around, what the community wants truly matters to them is just silly, and Penny Arcade nails the “why” perfectly. People who are really serious about pen & paper roleplaying games aren’t at all aligned with what Wizards really needs: people willing to spend unreasonable amounts of money on renewing their core book sets and on increasingly contrived accessories like cards and miniatures.
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You can catch up on that experience, through some writing I did during that time, on Draconus Dictum. It’s only available in Portuguese, though. ↩
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