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Well it worked GREAT in 3E for a while and brought in a lot of new folks, but failed badly in 4E. Sometimes people over-learn lessons from the past. Still, I don't mind substantial backwards compatibility so I'm OK with the notion of not making massive changes. In general, 5E is pretty smooth...

Well it worked GREAT in 3E for a while and brought in a lot of new folks, but failed badly in 4E. Sometimes people over-learn lessons from the past. Still, I don't mind substantial backwards compatibility so I'm OK with the notion of not making massive changes. In general, 5E is pretty smooth...

Nothing's evergreen. There probably were things that WotC did in the past to make the boom and bust worse---the OGL in 3.X that induced the D20 glut was a good example, as did the way 4E got rolled out without the online development they'd over-promised---but I suspect many of those things...

Nothing's evergreen. There probably were things that WotC did in the past to make the boom and bust worse---the OGL in 3.X that induced the D20 glut was a good example, as did the way 4E got rolled out without the online development they'd over-promised---but I suspect many of those things...

I'm not sure I'd agree with that. Mid-edition re-covering and other things like that, certainly tend to be cash grabs. Often edition changes were really done with fixing the rules or pushing in a new direction in mind, though. Of course they do sell a ton of books because most sales tend to...

I'm not sure I'd agree with that. Mid-edition re-covering and other things like that, certainly tend to be cash grabs. Often edition changes were really done with fixing the rules or pushing in a new direction in mind, though. Of course they do sell a ton of books because most sales tend to...

The term "armor class" certainly makes sense because it was adopted from real naval terminology, and I can see lower being better from Royal Navy I believe, which had First through Fifth Rate for ships of the line, originally. Hit points came from actual naval wargaming, which was used heavily...

The term "armor class" certainly makes sense because it was adopted from real naval terminology, and I can see lower being better from Royal Navy I believe, which had First through Fifth Rate for ships of the line, originally. Hit points came from actual naval wargaming, which was used heavily...

I think at some point there's an inherent conflict between these two, though of course as you say many people are a mixture and the "casual" type gamer often doesn't bother to RP or know the rules so it's not really aligned on one axis. If you want a really high drama story, that can be quite...

The die roll can be surprisingly helpful! It often pushes me out of the obvious move.

I suspect that it wasn't, at least not explicitly. Actually D&D had. Recall that AD&D was a pretty heavy revision itself, and D&D had been "forked" into two versions which coexisted since around 1980. A lot of the fear, I suspect, was about the fact that this was the first version with Gygax...

I suspect that it wasn't, at least not explicitly. Actually D&D had. Recall that AD&D was a pretty heavy revision itself, and D&D had been "forked" into two versions which coexisted since around 1980. A lot of the fear, I suspect, was about the fact that this was the first version with Gygax...

If I recall correctly, AC used to be ascending in very early versions of the game and then it got switched. I'm not sure why.

If I recall correctly, AC used to be ascending in very early versions of the game and then it got switched. I'm not sure why.

TSR was evidently very afraid of backlash, particularly due to the fact that this was only a short time after Gygax had departed. There was a good bit of it between every edition change.

TSR was evidently very afraid of backlash, particularly due to the fact that this was only a short time after Gygax had departed. There was a good bit of it between every edition change.

Oh I get it and there are different ways to represent this. Other things in the interview I posted indicated they were wary of a backlash due to the fact that 2E was the first edition done without Gary Gygax. They talk more about it around 1:00:00 in, where they discuss how the consequences of...

Oh I get it and there are different ways to represent this. Other things in the interview I posted indicated they were wary of a backlash due to the fact that 2E was the first edition done without Gary Gygax. They talk more about it around 1:00:00 in, where they discuss how the consequences of...

See what was said by Jon Pickens at 46:30 in this podcast where he talks about the biggest challenge regarding the transition between 1E and 2E: "You can't invalidate it." He noted that they were reminded about the warehouse full of product (presumably they were also likely worried about book...

See what was said by Jon Pickens at 46:30 in this podcast where he talks about the biggest challenge regarding the transition between 1E and 2E: "You can't invalidate it." He noted that they were reminded about the warehouse full of product (presumably they were also likely worried about book...