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Uhh... I like Gygax as much as the next guy, but I think you're wrong here.

Everything Mike said in that post of his that you quoted makes perfect sense. And it easily explains why and how a project he is...

obviously this assumes they had enough books to not run out… the book still would not sell as many copies every week for the next 50...

maybe that is what you remember, but the 3.5 sales were lower than the 3e sales (according to Ben Riggs) and both dropped off fast or we...

that 2500% is a BS number. It were true if you expected the sales of the first two weeks to continue at that rate for the rest of the...

and don’t forget that all the TSR lines shed sales fast, despite lasting for many years 1e and 2e do not look all that different either…

ok, so when is the long term then, and also who is to say how it does in another 10 or 20 years based on whatever iteration they make in...

it’s been over 10 years, no other edition came close to having good sales for more than a year or two. When does the short term end? I...

5e had very strong initial sales numbers, larger than 4e's very strong sales. But while 4e couldn't maintain the numbers, 5e numbers...

Your argument actually supports 4E damaging the brand and 4E inheriting a decent ecosystem from 3E. 5E even at launch overperformed...

No. There are many more axies of class diversity than complexity. No, but there are players who strongly prefer simple characters, and...

because if you design all classes the same to have both simple and complex options then everybody gets to have access to all classes...

One simple sub per class (each class). A blaster wizard, healer cleric, buffer bard, elementalist druid, sniper warlock, etc. But to...

The PF2 discussion in this thread is honestly baffling to me given my experience is completely different. But that's not what the thread...