Gleemax
OK. I checked out the Gleemax site…(http://www.gleemax.com)…the new WOTC digital initiative. It is not impressive ,but maybe…just maybe it will be something worthwhile eventually. After checking out the interview done by ICv2(http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/10725.html), I have to say that maybe they are targeting a different audience than me and many other older gamers. On some other boards people have suggested that maybe it will be the myspace of gaming. It might just be a reasonable thing ,but I’m not sure if it (or it’s DnD content…yet to be discussed) will useful to current tabletop gamers….we’ll see.
I know WOTC and gaming in general needs to keep reaching out to new gamers ,but I hope they don’t sacrifice the old fans in order to do that. I also hope that this means that 4e is much further away than was originally intended or like R. Dancey said a few months back, maybe it will be a mostly digital/online version of DnD which will not completely invalidate 3.x as a tabeltop system. Maybe…just maybe we’ll still get paper support for 3.x while the “computer savvy ” generation of young gamers gorge themselves on the online 4e…..maybe?
4E after all?
Clark Peterson thinks 4E is going to be announced at GenCon. Who am I to argue?
I’ll admit it, I’m a fringe consumer. I put less than $300 a year into D&D, not counting GenCon. I don’t buy D&D minis, I get about 1 out of 10 supplements, and I am more likely to use community-created content than I am official content, in terms of adventures.
But Ryan Dancey, at least 5 months ago, didn’t seem to think 4.0 was on the radar at WotC. The WotC guys at Winter Fantasy laughed the question off, saying they had no plans through ‘08 for 4.0.
Now, I know a lot can change in a few months. But could it be that Clark (and the other “industry” folks he is talking about) are just being business-conscious, and maybe even a bit paranoid?
On an almost unrelated note, I really do hope 4E, when it does come, is open-source. The OGL made the game better, IMAO.
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