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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 8444378" data-attributes="member: 58197"><p>Imagine if OSRIC (or some other old-school game that deliberately mimicked AD&D as closely as possible) had come out early in the 3E era and exploded in popularity, shooting up into the #2 spot among all RPGs.</p><p></p><p>And over the period from 2000 to 2008, repeated rounds of layoffs cut the D&D team down to a skeleton crew.</p><p></p><p>And finally 4E came along, and it abandoned unified stat and XP tables while resurrecting THAC0, nonweapon proficiencies, gestalt multiclassing, and the five saves.</p><p></p><p>Would you blame anyone for raising questions about 3E's sales compared to 2E in that scenario*?</p><p></p><p>To be clear, I enjoyed 4E and played it throughout its run. And even though I prefer 5E mechanically, I still mourn the loss of the 4E lore and the return to the dreary mess of the Great Wheel. But WotC clearly was not happy with its performance.</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">*Though, come to think of it, I would actually be interested to know if 3E outsold 2E. Given that TSR drove itself into bankruptcy through overproduction, it is possible that 2E had more top-line sales.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 8444378, member: 58197"] Imagine if OSRIC (or some other old-school game that deliberately mimicked AD&D as closely as possible) had come out early in the 3E era and exploded in popularity, shooting up into the #2 spot among all RPGs. And over the period from 2000 to 2008, repeated rounds of layoffs cut the D&D team down to a skeleton crew. And finally 4E came along, and it abandoned unified stat and XP tables while resurrecting THAC0, nonweapon proficiencies, gestalt multiclassing, and the five saves. Would you blame anyone for raising questions about 3E's sales compared to 2E in that scenario*? To be clear, I enjoyed 4E and played it throughout its run. And even though I prefer 5E mechanically, I still mourn the loss of the 4E lore and the return to the dreary mess of the Great Wheel. But WotC clearly was not happy with its performance. [SIZE=3]*Though, come to think of it, I would actually be interested to know if 3E outsold 2E. Given that TSR drove itself into bankruptcy through overproduction, it is possible that 2E had more top-line sales.[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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