D&D:New Edition (Not 4e)

[the_taken]

A third party is taking an entirely different direction with D&D (up?), and is digging up all of the gems found in all of the D&D editions overlooked and flushed down WotC's emergency eye wash sink.
Their development threads can be found here:

New Edition of Rules
Social Combat: An idea
New Edition World Design tools
New Edition: Setting
New Edition: Monsters

There's more information floating around in other threads, but the core discussions are here.

[the_taken]

I missed the memo. Instead of just making a new game for us to play, we're actually trying to make something really good BEFORE 4e comes out, put it in a .pdf or something, then distribute it for free in an attempt to coup WotC.
Status Conditions Discussion
High Level Concepts and Design

[Ishmayl-Retired]

I read some of it, but got a bit distracted on one of the pages by 2 of the people (the main guy and someone else) fighting, bickering, and cursing back and forth to each other in a most-unproductive manner... is it all like that? :-/

[SilvercatMoonpaw]

Interesting Social Combat idea.  That's about all I can say since I'm too lazy to read the entire threads.  (Sorry!)

[the_taken]

Yes, people argue almost continuously there. They find that throwing ideas out in a big pile and sifting thru, tugging and pulling constantly over matters they find important allows them to view many points of view and compensate for them. It eventually makes a better end result.

If you're looking at the Social Combat discussion, I can't make heads or tails of any of it. I've read the whole thing and I'm still scratching my head.