I didn't get to go to Gen Con this year, or any year (yet) for that matter. I'm sat in a Starbucks 3,800 miles away, yet thanks to the magic of the internet, I can watch the keynote address on the future of Dungeons & Dragons. (For the record, the internet is also what told me the distance... what a world we live in.)
If you're interested in seeing it, it's available
here. Kinda long at over an hour; you might want to skip to 8 minutes in to save some time.
It's full of nerdly references, with real-world references to initiative, box text, and Star Trek (...yeah, that felt a bit odd to me, too).
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| Ed Greenwood and the mystery of where Elminster's beard came from solved! |
I really haven't been into D&D for a while, bypassing 4th Edition completely (although I did give a couple of books a bit more than a skim). With the way the Forgotten Realms have been brought to the forefront for D&D Next, the ethos feels a lot more like when I first started learning about D&D (or AD&D as it was then). Obviously, the announcement that Wizards are going to republish old editions and sourcebooks didn't hurt this feeling whatsoever.
Is this a return to the roots of D&D? It's hard to say, right now. But feel free to comment if you think you know the answer. ;)
(And, for the record, I could listen to Ed Greenwood speak all day...)
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