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The 1st tell tale is if the, new to your game, player refers to his character as a "build". While not 100% accurate at all, I've found it to be a starting point that indicates what the player's attitude to the game is. YMMV

It doesn't talk about XP bloat in the quote...

So, in summary. The the only way pulling old edition PDFs possibly benefits WotC is that it keeps paying customers from spending on old editions and hopefully, they will spend on 4.0 instead. Ahem. Don't use red text, please. We save that for needing to get someone's attention. Like now! ~ PCat

Nope, not at all. The "default" setting, if there is one, is medieval EU, not the Jurassic period.

I just use large casino D6 with the face up pip representing 10's of feet if that is the scale.

That may be but, years of experience running a business that relies on customers upgrading to newer versions of the same product tell me differently. Have you run a large company where rev relies on getting customers onto the latest product version?

Hmm, I've run an international S/W company with over $150,000,000/year sales. When we had titles that resellers only sold & we had no enduser contact, it was called a profit center, not a cost center. Perhaps you'd like to detail to me your theories on how the older PDFs were a cost center...

Simple. The total # of players playing 1st - 3.x is much greater than those playing 4.0 WotC wants new players to be unable to purchase the older editions and only buy 4.0. WotC isn't going to reissue older games in PDF format & a proprietary, online DRM version isn't going to cut it.

I've bought & played it. Interesting system. Only hard data I have is that local chain book stores stopped carrying after poor sales of core books last year. Sales worldwide could be good or bad, no way to know without hard numbers from WotC.

Actually, XP wasn't the reason. The reason is given in the DMG.

This would explain a lot...

Not off the top of my head. Look in the 1st DMG, if you don't own one I highly suggest getting one if not just for the invaluable data on DMing.

I think the best definition was written in the 1st Ed DMG.

Interesting. In 30 years of playing I've never seen this as a Modus operandi for groups I've DMed for or played with. Is it some new trend with RPGers?

In other words, the market is ALWAYS right. A company, it depends...

Like? I have found that some of the rules can make for a Monty Haul type of environment...

Balanced? I never mentioned that. I said, basic game rules...

I'll let you know when ANY player I've gamed with would rather stare at a 2" square screen while tapping keys, over sitting down at the table playing. If, you live to be as old as an elf I might find someone...

That's what happened. It also lead designers to ignore spell schools and create spells and designate them as belonging to incorrect schools, etc... Anything outside of core books needs to be checked for adhering to the basic game rules.

Let's put it this way. If you were slowly exposed to an arc search light shining in your eyes would it still effect you? Yes.