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5e? - Gri'shak - 03-25-2026
I was wondering, after spending way too much time thinking about my own campaign: will you make a switch to 5th edition? So far the entire story is mostly 2nd edition AD&D, with a switch to 'story-mode 2nd edition' a long time ago. But 5e has some cool classes we haven't really seen, like Monks, Barbarians, Warlocks and Artificers. It would be really cool to see some of these classes be included in the coming stories.
RE: 5e? - Thomas - 03-27-2026
So...I have thought about this, but the problem is I'd have to learn 5th edition (I'm assuming here that I don't need to learn 3rd and 4th to make a move to 5th...as this isn't a software upgrade that requires one to walk all the steps.) While I'm not fundamentally opposed to learning 5th edition, there are two time/effort-related downsides: 1) I'd have to stop writing for a while to have the time to learn a new ruleset, and 2) I'd have to convert all the website content (stats, spells, monsters, magic items) to 5th edition, which is a monumental task.
This seems to me like the same problem I always had with the Greyhawk Wars: it's something that probably needs to happen, but it means a massive amount of extra work for me. I'm not opposed, but right now (spring 2026) isn't the time. I'll table this idea for later. (After all, the Greyhawk Wars _did_ end up happening in my stories eventually!)
RE: 5e? - dpm - 03-29-2026
[...] convert all the website content (stats, spells, monsters, magic items) to 5th edition, which is a monumental impossible task.
RE: 5e? - Thomas - 03-29-2026
(03-29-2026, 03:18 AM)dpm Wrote: [...] convert all the website content (stats, spells, monsters, magic items) to 5th edition, which is a monumental impossible task.
Agreed. Just starting this task would mean a sharp dropoff in the writing of new stories, which would suck.