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Dragon Talk - An Official Dungeons & Dragons Podcast

Acquisitions Incorporated - Live Q&A with Mike Mearls (Part 1)

Dragon Talk - An Official Dungeons & Dragons Podcast

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4.4861 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2012

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Mike Mearls, Senior Manager of D&D R&D at WOTC, sits down with the folks at Penny Arcade and PvP. In this podcast, he helps educate them on character creation and conversion - gearing up for the Live D&D game taking place at this year's PAX (Part 1)!

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0:00.0

I'm ready to create I'm ready to see the next level I'm ready to see the new paradigm is it called fifth edition

0:06.1

That's not like the official name yet okay. It's still still next was not really sure what we want to call it when it comes out. Well, ain't going to be six edition.

0:13.7

What could it be?

0:15.7

No, they could call it, they could call it just Dungeons and Dragons.

0:18.9

That's what we'd like to do.

0:20.3

Because the thing is, if you call it, like, if you emphasize the fifth, is it confusing to new players?

0:24.2

I mean, how many people actually get really care about it?

0:27.4

So, I mean, you should take a page from Apple, just call it the new Dungeons and Dragons.

0:31.7

There's new always. Well, isn't that, isn't the idea that it's an all-int? new is the yeah this is this is like the Metallica album Metallica.

0:45.0

Yeah exactly right I mean so to be the essence of what it is.

0:48.0

But they couldn't just call it Dungeons.

0:50.0

No now because then people be like

0:52.0

Where the Dragon will exactly the sense then would be that you were holding back

0:57.0

on the dragons just to charge later

0:59.6

we're gonna use a book later that's. Right now you guys just have dungeons.

1:05.0

Enjoy.

1:06.0

Oh man.

1:08.0

No, it's true though.

1:09.0

I'll play when there's dragons.

1:10.0

Exactly.

1:11.0

You don't want that early bird to be like listen I'm going to

1:14.8

hold off for greater value yeah exactly you know what I mean I mean I know you guys

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