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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 7529465" data-attributes="member: 58197">Monopoly is a reptile, D&D is a mammal. Their strategies and their needs are quite different.Once you've got a Monopoly set, you're unlikely to buy another one unless the first one gets lost or damaged; any given Monopoly customer is going to buy maybe one copy in ten years. Monopoly has built its business model around this reality. They keep their overhead low and cast their net as widely as possible. There isn't much to gain by changing--casual players don't care, and in fact may be put off by changes--so the game changes slowly.D&D is built around a much higher level of engagement. What we consider a "casual player" in D&D-land is somebody who devotes an evening every couple of weeks to the game. Somebody who devotes an evening every couple of weeks to Monopoly is a pretty dedicated Monopoly player! D&D's business model requires selling product over and over to a smaller group of fans. That was true even at the peak of the 1980s craze. And to keep selling product to the same person, you have to keep making new products to sell.Now, I don't believe changes on the scale of 3E -> 4E are necessary. Even for D&D, that was too much. But 1E -> 2E? Sure, I can see that. 5E has plenty of rough edges that could be smoothed over by such a shift.</blockquote>