Looking Forward to D&D Next Part 2

Now D&D Next is in the works, and it appears that it will hew closer to 3rd edition and 2nd edition then to 4th edition. That doesn’t mean, however, that we 4th edition fans are going to be left out in the cold. 4e taught the devs, and in fact the whole industry, some very important lessons about tabletop games. In the this group of posts I’m going to cover some of the lessons that I think should have been learned, and hopefully show how that lesson could be applied to D&D Next.

The next lesson is right after the jump!

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Should Weapons have Damage Types?

One of my favorite designers, Robert J. Schwalb wrote a little article today on the D&D Next group blog about weapon damage types and whether they are good to put back into the game or not.

My response to that article after the jump.

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