{"id":2030,"date":"2007-08-16T14:04:29","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T20:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nerdflood.com\/2007\/08\/16\/dungeons-and-dragons-4th-edition\/"},"modified":"2007-08-16T14:04:29","modified_gmt":"2007-08-16T20:04:29","slug":"dungeons-and-dragons-4th-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/dungeons-and-dragons-4th-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Dungeons and Dragons 4th edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/games\/2007\/08\/dungeons-dragon.html\">This<\/a> is probably for the best, seeing as how I gave away all my 3rd edition D&amp;D materials to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evilavatar.com\/forums\/showthread.php?t=28638\">Ziggurat Con<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A more generous reading would cite all the extracurricular work that Wizards is putting into community building for <\/em><em>D&amp;D. Launching alongside the new edition of the rules is what the company is calling D&amp;D Insider, a suite of web tools aimed at easing some of the more time-consuming involved in setting up a campaign. D&amp;D Insider will feature character and campaign-building tools, as well as a &#8220;virtual tabletop&#8221; that will enable players and game masters to congregate remotely. In tandem with its for-gamers social networking site Gleemax, it seems that Wizards is putting forth an admirable effort toward making <\/em><em>D&amp;D play better with the internets.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In all honesty, an update would be fantastic at this point. Creating a new set of rules that coincide with a realistic implementation of web-based assistance tools and automated configuration utilities would be an amazing stroke of genius that Wizards should have figured out for the 3rd edition launch. I&#8217;m glad they&#8217;re catching up, though, and I&#8217;m excited to see it expand onto a serious internet effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is probably for the best, seeing as how I gave away all my 3rd edition D&amp;D materials to Ziggurat Con. A more generous reading would cite all the extracurricular work that Wizards is putting into community building for D&amp;D. Launching alongside the new edition of the rules is what the company is calling D&amp;D [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[245],"tags":[419,500,289],"class_list":["post-2030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","tag-analog","tag-dungeons-dragons","tag-happenings","last-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}