Wizards of the Coast are preparing for the launch of a new version of the venerable classic co-created by the late Gary Gygax.  This new version has a great preview up over at the Wired GeekDad blog, and is scheduled for release in June of 2008.  The preview overviews the data gleaned from two books, Wizards Presents: Worlds and Monsters and Wizards Presents: Classes and Races, that WOTC are using to promote the new series. 

As a summary of the GeekDad entry, the designers over WOTC seem to focused on making the game play a little easier for entry level players.  They have removed the whole spell casting limitation  (wizards would have a set number of spells they can cast per day) which was a tenet of the game for a very long time.  They also seem to want to simplify the number of creatures available.  There is a lot of data to consider and I would like to check out the new system.  I just question if I really need another stack of RPG books considering my 3E stuff is still pretty pristine.

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