19th April 2008, 04:03 AM
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Originally Posted by ainatan Is there a possibility that WOTC simply wants everyone using their DDI Character Creator instead of a free 3P product that may become a direct competitor of their paid product? | It's possible, but since it's geared towards publishers putting out "stand-alone player's handbooks," I'd say it's primarily there simply to prevent anyone from making a 4e-based game/product that allows you to completely bypass owning the 4e core books.
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Every edition moves us closer to a better game, in my view. And guess what, 4E will screw some stuff up, just like 3E made monster design a horrific, creativity squashing nightmare (ok, I'm overstating it, yes, you could still make real cool monsters, but it became more of a rules lawyer-y cookie cutter solution which I don't favor). 4E will do things wrong. Maybe it will be that 1st level characters will be too powerful. I don't know. But experimenting is the way to do it--and, as it so happens, it is the TRADITION of D&D. Gary, god rest his soul, didn't stop with the white box. He did Greyhawk. Blackmoor. He added new classes. Psionics. New monsters. Eldritch Wizardry. Then he tried to unify it all with AD&D. If D&D has a tradition, its change, growth and expansion. If it didn't, we'd all just have STR INT and WIS. - Orcus |
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