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<blockquote data-quote="77IM" data-source="post: 6347822" data-attributes="member: 12377">Let's stop talking about monopoly and chess -- people are extremely satisfied with those rules. When 3.0 came out, if it had been largely compatible with 2e, it would have flopped. It took off like wild fire precisely because it was so different -- in a way that people wanted. But as a product of late '90s game design, it had its own issues. When 4e came out, it was an effort to rectify 3.5's major failings, and bring lapsed D&amp;D players back into the fold. Had 4e been backwards compatible with 3.5 it would not have made the big splash that it did, with celebrity playing it and new blogs revolving around it. This is a huge dilemma for Wizards since they want every new edition release to be the huge money-maker that 3.0 was. Even 3.5 was released several years ahead of plan (source: Monte Cook) because Wizards was desperate for another big cash injection.As for supplements and bloat, that's a lot easier for them to control. Just make every supplement a game changer, something that really substantially affects how the game is played. This makes it much easier for DMs to pick supplements based on the type of game they want to run. For example, both the PF APG and the 3.0 Oriental Adventures can be viewed as just big collections of classes, feats, spells, etc. But one of them is pure rules-bloat and hard to justify as in a inappropriate for your game, while the other is an option that could greatly enhance your game but is by no means required.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="77IM, post: 6347822, member: 12377"] Let's stop talking about monopoly and chess -- people are extremely satisfied with those rules. When 3.0 came out, if it had been largely compatible with 2e, it would have flopped. It took off like wild fire precisely because it was so different -- in a way that people wanted. But as a product of late '90s game design, it had its own issues. When 4e came out, it was an effort to rectify 3.5's major failings, and bring lapsed D&D players back into the fold. Had 4e been backwards compatible with 3.5 it would not have made the big splash that it did, with celebrity playing it and new blogs revolving around it. This is a huge dilemma for Wizards since they want every new edition release to be the huge money-maker that 3.0 was. Even 3.5 was released several years ahead of plan (source: Monte Cook) because Wizards was desperate for another big cash injection. As for supplements and bloat, that's a lot easier for them to control. Just make every supplement a [I]game changer[/I], something that really substantially affects how the game is played. This makes it much easier for DMs to pick supplements based on the type of game they want to run. For example, both the PF APG and the 3.0 Oriental Adventures can be viewed as just big collections of classes, feats, spells, etc. But one of them is pure rules-bloat and hard to justify as in a inappropriate for your game, while the other is an option that could greatly enhance your game but is by no means required. [/QUOTE]

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