Like most people that have been avidly following 4E for the past 12 months I was not particularly surprised by the announcement of “a new iteration of D&D” by WotC on the 9th Jan. If anything I’m pleased by the possibilities of the public playtest and curious about the forthcoming edition of the game.
For me personally I enjoy 4E, sure it has some warts, and there are places I could see improvement being made, but that is the same for any game system I’ve ever laid eyes on. The truth is that for me 4E has provided a great system for playing DnD and I, over all, like it more than prior editions. This is why I started Daily Encounter in the first place, because I loved 4E DnD and wanted to contribute to the community and blogging seemed to be the only way I could do that outside my FLGS. Now I’ve signed up for the public playtests of DnDNext, and I’ll be watching along with everyone else for news and information about the new iteration. As content comes out I’ll, no doubt, be making posts here as well. After all that is contributing to the DnD community.
However the site has a strong 4E focus, and with the deathknell of 4E sounded, the site will be changing its focus away from that game system over the next twelve months. We have several projects in the works, and we will continue to develop them, waiting anxiously to see what happens with the next GSL (hopefully back to an OSL), and working on getting the background and content of the projects to the highest standard. In the meantime we will continue to produce 4E content, but you can look to see other game systems added in the next 12 months, exactly what and when I’m not certain at this time. However the site focus will remain providing useable content for DMs and Players of DnD for 4E and future editions.