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A couple of ways I ruled differently than you on our recent playtest: 1. Dwarves are immune to poison and can't be intoxicated from alcohol. 2. We thought the defender feat was excellent (the knight could attack and use it each turn as the reaction mentions nothing about giving up an action)...

Your point about the OGL ensuring quality from WotC and faith from the consumer is a good one that I hadn't considered. Another point in favor of the OGL it seems. Howver, your "sight unseen" argument about the initial success of 4e seems weird to me. I'm not sure it really explains why the...

From the way I read it, advantage and disadvantage were kind of conditions that were either on, or they were off. In other words, your rogue is hidden, is attacking a blind goblin that is also paralyzed? Congratulations, you have advantage for your ranged sling attack. Is this goblin also...

Presumably, the damage for the basic attacks of fighter/rogue/etc. will scale with level (and pretty quickly it seems with d6 sneak attack per level), so it's only fair that the basic attacks of casters also scale. I would like to see how the other basic attack spells (such as shocking grasp)...

In case anyone doubts my thief's ability to cream 4e kobolds at level 1, here is how you replicate it: ---------------------------------------------------- Level 1 Human Thief ---------------------------------------------------- Dex(20) +5 Rogue's Trick: Acrobat's Trick Background: Gritty...

Our 4e wizard could do it when he was 5th level, so 4th edition characters can kill kobolds in one hit at the level they get fireball (same as 3.x): Kobold Slinger; 24 HP; 14 Reflex 5th Level Fireball: +11 vs Reflex (+ 13 with CA); 4d6 + 10 fire damage; 34 + 2d8 fire damage on crit; Half...

Just in case anyone doubts my anecdote, here is the product page for David's store: Products | Gamemasters Guild Of our three stores, only TBS comics actually stocks Pathfinder stuff anymore. At Barnes & Nobles and Books-A-Million, I wouldn't be surprised if I'm the *only* person that ever...

I know all about the game and I really care about it's future. From my perspective, 4e wasn't a failure, far from it. The thing is, even amongst the most devoted, 4e may be controversial and divisive, but that is because there are so many "true" fans that are passionate about the topic on both...

First, Player's Handbook 2 sold nearly as many copies as the core, something splat books never do (we can argue I guess whether or not PHB2 counts as a splat book, but it pretty clearly does). So while some people bought the core and then abandoned the system immediately, we're not really...

Which strong 3e game elements do you think were readily discarded? Some flavor stuff was altered for sure, such as cosmology and the alignment system, but we pretty much retained these things in all our 4e games. It seems to me that that 4e retained most of the core 3e elements, but you could...

Well, I guess we could debate the sale margins on each book sold, but I wouldn't even know where to begin with that one. Otherwise, I would think that selling out their large print runs would equate to profitability. If you won't take the word of the president of Wizards of the Coast that a...

Of course, anyone willing to argue about any D&D edition on any forum is pretty darn niche. Also, the people most polarized about a topic are those most likely to talk about it. Finally, I've talked about D&D (in general) on various types of forums (including basketball), but forums that I just...

Here's an analogy, and honestly what many "arguments" I've heard sound like: Nintendo has lost a lot of money recently (very few people have been buying the Wii recently). They also announced a new system recently to replace the one that wasn't selling. But to call the Wii a flop would be...

Here's a bit of information for you; I'll find some my other old research later, including some Greg Leads quotes about the success of 4e!!. (NBA Playoffs are on). And you are definitely right about the 80s; IIRC, D&D had 13 print runs during that era. From his blog, you may have to expand some...

Ironically, there would have been no 4th edition in the first place if so many people weren't dissatisfied with 3.x, and 3.x sales hadn't begun to decrease so substantially. In fact, it took a heavily house ruled (but very good version) of 3.x (Pathfinder), coupled with the huge amount of...

The problem is, from their perspective, a "constant availability of new sourcebooks" just isn't as profitable for them over the long run (which is why I question whether this model really is more popular amongst the mainstream consumer on the whole). But my question for you is, that if 5e, 6e...

Also <!-- BEGIN TEMPLATE: dbtech_usertag_mention --> @Shemeska <!-- END TEMPLATE: dbtech_usertag_mention --> and <!-- BEGIN TEMPLATE: dbtech_usertag_mention --> @jsaving <!-- END TEMPLATE: dbtech_usertag_mention --> I'm certain that WotC (and Hasbro) is disappointed that they've lost market...

Honestly, I don't see the edition "treadmill" any different than the annual release of new Magic sets. Now, Magic doesn't reinvent its rules every 4 years (it's more like every 8), but if WotC has discovered that people prefer to buy core books to splat books on the whole, why is it so vile to...

4th edition represents at least half the D&D playerbase. It is at least as large as all the other playerbases combined.

If I'm WotC and 5e sells as well as 4e, 3.X, etc., then I continue to do what I've always done, which is to market and sell a new edition/revision approximately every four years. Afterall, gamers with disposable income are very likely to purchase my "new" products, whether or not they actually...