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[5e] 3pp?

Started by Will, July 31, 2014, 08:03:59 PM

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Will

July 31, 2014, 08:03:59 PM
Any word yet on how third party publishers will be treated under 5e?

Any rumors?
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July 31, 2014, 08:46:46 PM
Quote from: Will;774179Any word yet on how third party publishers will be treated under 5e?

Any rumors?

Nope.  Just that Mearls said sometime in 2015, after people have had time to soak up the DMG
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August 01, 2014, 01:30:57 AM
Necromancer Games has already announced that they will be supporting 5e.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/necromancergames/necromancer-games-back-for-5th-edition

Given that their writers will include Ed Greenwood and Steve Winter, I assume that WotC is cool with this (or that Necro is very confident about their legal standing).
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August 01, 2014, 01:40:44 AM
Quote from: Akrasia;774272Necromancer Games has already announced that they will be supporting 5e.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/necromancergames/necromancer-games-back-for-5th-edition

Given that their writers will include Ed Greenwood and Steve Winter, I assume that WotC is cool with this (or that Necro is very confident about their legal standing).

It seems pretty brazen of Necromancer but I guess they feel like they're covered. I don't understand or even care for all the lawspeak but imo more content = better product, even if I have to sort through the chaff myself.

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August 01, 2014, 02:56:08 AM
Quote from: Raven;774276It seems pretty brazen of Necromancer but I guess they feel like they're covered. I don't understand or even care for all the lawspeak but imo more content = better product, even if I have to sort through the chaff myself.

I dunno. The whole d20 boom sort of showed otherwise. Companies learned that quantity, not quality mattered. That it was better to put out several books a month than to put out a few quality books a year.

Mongoose, AEG, and FFG pretty much just flooded the market. The crap pushed out all the good stuff (at least IMHO).

And IMHO at least, it looks like Necromancer/Frog God is trying to do that. They, at least Sword & Sorcery (which they were related to) rushed out a really crappy monster book before WOTC launched the official monster manual. They really made out like bandits, but it was a seriously crappy book.

Will

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August 01, 2014, 10:04:50 AM
I loved the diversity of 3e OGL. Yeah, a lot of it was crap, but a lot of WotC's stuff is crap, too.

But I was far more likely to have a 'social combat system' in 3e than 4e.
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August 01, 2014, 02:42:36 PM
Quote from: JeremyR;774291I dunno. The whole d20 boom sort of showed otherwise.

90% of everything is crap. Increase the amount of stuff and you increase the amount of crap, but you are also likely to increase the amount of good stuff (assuming it's coming from disparate sources).

So, yeah, lots of crap from Mongoose and White Wolf. But I'll readily accept the easy task of ignoring that stuff in exchange for all the amazing stuff that was produced. It's certainly preferable to being completely dependent on the mediocrity that WotC was generally churning out during that period.
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Raven

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August 04, 2014, 12:47:04 AM
Preview from Necromancer's 5th Edition Foes project:

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August 04, 2014, 01:08:27 AM
Interesting.... though methinks somebody there is a HUGE Dune fan.;)
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August 06, 2014, 07:09:32 PM
That's a pretty good looking preview.
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