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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 6056723" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>It is just a convenient analogy, this is rife in all layers and manner of business and life. People do it all the time. Two of my friends in the last couple years have ripped out perfectly fine modern kitchens in their houses so they could do something different. As soon as you get a new boss all the perfectly good old ways of doing things get replaced by new ways. It is always at least partially NIH. Ever cat has to mark his territory.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Well, I personally seriously doubt WotC would take the hit of selling nothing but low volume reprints for 2 years just so they could toss out a throwaway product. </p><p></p><p>No, this is a very different thing. Imagine you are Mike Mearls man. ONCE IN YOUR LIFE you get to frigging redesign D&D and make it any way you want. Like hell you're going to pass that up. There's no logic of any sort on the face of the Earth that would swerve any of us from rewriting the whole game from the ground up. It would be like the astronaut equivalent of being offered the chance to be to the first man to set foot on Mars and turning it down. THAT is what this is about, PURE AND SIMPLE. </p><p></p><p>I know Mike wouldn't put it that way and he's got plenty of reasons all lined up in his head for why he HAS to try to write his name in letters 100' tall across the biggest landmark in the gaming industry, but lets be real here. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>You're telling me you can't tack other subsystems onto 4e? Or more properly if you have the leeway to rewrite 4e to whatever extent you couldn't fit into it a whole crapload of other subsystems? Really? </p><p></p><p>I mean ultimately this is one of those unanswerable questions and unending debates. I just don't hold with your proposition. I mean we could discuss endlessly the way this would be done and how well it would work, etc. but without being able to actually put it out there as a release of D&D and see what happened it is all just academic. That's cool though, I understand where you're coming from. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Sorry, Ryan Dancy, whom you can of course peruse the opinions of right here on our most favoritest RPG site <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> He's certainly in the "more editions just make it worse" camp and may well have the best perspective on the whole thing going these days. He certainly knows a LOT about it, and he's a sharp cookie (maybe a little cocky, maybe, but his knowledge of the industry certainly dwarfs mine).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 6056723, member: 82106"] It is just a convenient analogy, this is rife in all layers and manner of business and life. People do it all the time. Two of my friends in the last couple years have ripped out perfectly fine modern kitchens in their houses so they could do something different. As soon as you get a new boss all the perfectly good old ways of doing things get replaced by new ways. It is always at least partially NIH. Ever cat has to mark his territory. Well, I personally seriously doubt WotC would take the hit of selling nothing but low volume reprints for 2 years just so they could toss out a throwaway product. No, this is a very different thing. Imagine you are Mike Mearls man. ONCE IN YOUR LIFE you get to frigging redesign D&D and make it any way you want. Like hell you're going to pass that up. There's no logic of any sort on the face of the Earth that would swerve any of us from rewriting the whole game from the ground up. It would be like the astronaut equivalent of being offered the chance to be to the first man to set foot on Mars and turning it down. THAT is what this is about, PURE AND SIMPLE. I know Mike wouldn't put it that way and he's got plenty of reasons all lined up in his head for why he HAS to try to write his name in letters 100' tall across the biggest landmark in the gaming industry, but lets be real here. You're telling me you can't tack other subsystems onto 4e? Or more properly if you have the leeway to rewrite 4e to whatever extent you couldn't fit into it a whole crapload of other subsystems? Really? I mean ultimately this is one of those unanswerable questions and unending debates. I just don't hold with your proposition. I mean we could discuss endlessly the way this would be done and how well it would work, etc. but without being able to actually put it out there as a release of D&D and see what happened it is all just academic. That's cool though, I understand where you're coming from. :) Sorry, Ryan Dancy, whom you can of course peruse the opinions of right here on our most favoritest RPG site ;) He's certainly in the "more editions just make it worse" camp and may well have the best perspective on the whole thing going these days. He certainly knows a LOT about it, and he's a sharp cookie (maybe a little cocky, maybe, but his knowledge of the industry certainly dwarfs mine). [/QUOTE]
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