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Argyle King said:

Sorta. Regardless, 4E was denied for a while, as books were still squeezed out.

Even after 4E was a sure thing, "ze game will remain ze same" was a big part of early advertising.

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Jer said:

I think folks are trained to expect editions of D&D to be major changes because every previous one has been a major change. But the publishing realities of 5e are different than the previous 4 editions. When 2e came out TSR was seeing major dropoffs in their sales and needed a boost. When 3e came out Wizards put 20+ years of game design advancements into the game all at once to get back the folks who had drifted away. I don't have the numbers, but my impression is that 4e was similar to 2e in that Wizards was seeing major dropoffs in sales and needed a boost - and needed one so quick they rushed 4e out the door before it was done.

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Charlaquin said:

Yeah, Steady Aim seems unnecessary to me with how I run stealth in combat, but the way I’ve heard a lot of folks say they run it, I can see why Steady Aim would be needed in those groups.

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overgeeked said:

I couldn't stand to play an RPG drunk. But then I'm constitutionally incapable of playing an RPG straight or seriously. I simply cannot play these games with a serious, dramatic, or whatever vibe. It's make believe with homework and math rocks. It's inherently silly. I can't take something this silly at all seriously. But then I also can't take most serious things seriously.

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Charlaquin said:

With 4e it wasn’t that 3.5 was seeing a drop in sales, it was that Hazbro introduced a decide between core brand products and ancillary ones; how much money a brand made determined which category it fell into, and which category a brand fell into determined how much funding it got. D&D was close to the line, so 4e was part of WotC’s pitch for how they were going to increase profits enough to count as a core brand.

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Argyle King said:

Sorta. Regardless, 4E was denied for a while, as books were still squeezed out.

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Vaalingrade said:

I am constantly bewildered that people play this game 'sober' (not in the 'not-drunk sense, but in the 'completely serious, we are dour men enjoying a stiff brandy and a cigar and laughter shall be confined to harrumphs' sense).

If you're going to get together with your friends to play make believe, I say own it.

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