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Mearls (officially) out as D&D manager. Ray Winninger is in.

Started by thedungeondelver, April 29, 2020, 11:18:15 AM

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Iron_Rain

#1
April 29, 2020, 11:29:09 AM
Says something about D&D 5e that Mearls has been gone for 6 months and no one even noticed.

Franko77

#2
April 29, 2020, 11:32:09 AM
Ray Winninger? The guy who did the Underground RPG way back when? Man, that's a name I've not heard for quite some time!

Cheers,
Franko

thedungeondelver

#3
April 29, 2020, 11:50:32 AM
Quote from: Franko77;1128239Ray Winninger? The guy who did the Underground RPG way back when? Man, that's a name I've not heard for quite some time!

Cheers,
Franko

Yeah.  DC Super Heroes, Underground, bunch of other stuff.  Never really was on my radar although I always loved the cover art of Underground.
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Mcbobbo sums it up nicely.

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Armchair Gamer

#4
April 29, 2020, 11:52:38 AM
Quote from: Franko77;1128239Ray Winninger? The guy who did the Underground RPG way back when? Man, that's a name I've not heard for quite some time!

Cheers,
Franko

   That's what would leave me a bit worried--nothing against Underground, but with the current push to make everything partisan and polemical, I'm not sure I'd want someone with that background in charge of something like D&D that is supposed to have broader appeal.

Brad

#5
April 29, 2020, 11:54:52 AM
Quote from: Armchair Gamer;1128242That's what would leave me a bit worried--nothing against Underground, but with the current push to make everything partisan and polemical, I'm not sure I'd want someone with that background in charge of something like D&D that is supposed to have broader appeal.

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A satirical game based on Cold War politics cannot be equivocated with the current political climate. At all.

Anyway, if you're at all interested in his actual approach to gaming, this is a good start (hosted by our own John Kim): http://www.darkshire.net/jhkim/rpg/dnd/dungeoncraft/
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VisionStorm

#6
April 29, 2020, 12:06:31 PM
Quote from: thedungeondelver;1128235Thoughts?

And prayers?

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Sorry, couldn't resist. :p

oggsmash

#7
April 29, 2020, 12:10:53 PM
Quote from: Armchair Gamer;1128242That's what would leave me a bit worried--nothing against Underground, but with the current push to make everything partisan and polemical, I'm not sure I'd want someone with that background in charge of something like D&D that is supposed to have broader appeal.

  Which way do you feel the wind blows with him?

JeffB

#8
April 29, 2020, 12:13:00 PM
Only familiar with him as the Dungeoncraft writer in Dragon (or Dungeon?) magazine.

NeonAce

#9
April 29, 2020, 12:20:38 PM
I like to entertain the thought that this would somehow lead to an unholy revival of old TSR Marvel Super Heroes, in a new edition influenced by MEGS. I mean, that's completely unrealistic and not happening, but it's a fun thought regardless. My realistic thoughts are: Meh, I'm sure he'll do a decent enough job with WotC D&D, and it'll continue to be run well enough, though continue to not be my jam.

Omega

#10
April 29, 2020, 12:28:30 PM
Remember him from Torg waaaay back. Yeesh he doesnt look very old. How young was he back in the 90s???

RPGPundit

#11
April 29, 2020, 01:15:10 PM
Quote from: oggsmash;1128246Which way do you feel the wind blows with him?

His twitter is strongly left-leaning and he has clear Trump Derangement Syndrome.
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#12
April 29, 2020, 01:27:14 PM
Quote from: RPGPundit;1128251His twitter is strongly left-leaning and he has clear Trump Derangement Syndrome.

  He did sign on to Gamers4Her four years ago ... but then, so did almost everyone else at WotC.

thedungeondelver

#13
April 29, 2020, 01:27:44 PM
I don't really care because he can't retcon virtue signaling into old D&D but I do worry that someday, they're going to get someone at WotC who's going to decide that it's time to "erase the toxic legacy of Gary Gygax" and before you know it, old school D&D will be as the Germans say, verboten.  And I'm serious about that; I run gaming events and use OD&D and AD&D almost exclusively.
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Mcbobbo sums it up nicely.

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Armchair Gamer

#14
April 29, 2020, 01:45:51 PM
Quote from: thedungeondelver;1128253I don't really care because he can't retcon virtue signaling into old D&D but I do worry that someday, they're going to get someone at WotC who's going to decide that it's time to "erase the toxic legacy of Gary Gygax" and before you know it, old school D&D will be as the Germans say, verboten.  And I'm serious about that; I run gaming events and use OD&D and AD&D almost exclusively.

   It's a not impossible (but not plausible--they are convinced they own the future and seem to have little or no concern about the past) Worst Case Scenario, but isn't that one of the cases where the retroclones and the studied 'speaking around' the trademarks approach used by the OSR would come into play?
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