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<blockquote data-quote="Falling Icicle" data-source="post: 3862727" data-attributes="member: 17077">Last I checked D&amp;D is the most popular fantasy RPG.I don't buy this nonsense that anything they're changing will attract more people to the game. Nobody is going to buy the 4e book because there are Eladrins, points of light, or a new background for demons and devils. If they've read the book enogh to notice those things, they're already interested in the game.What gets most people interested in the game? Their friends that are playing it. It's the grassroots that keeps pen and paper RPGs strong. And that's exactly the audience that WotC risks insulting by treating their style of gaming and preferences as if they don't matter. It's not just 40 or 50 year old gamers but the 3e generation as well.Adapt or die? That's nonsense. Hasn't it occured to you that just because some change in a new edition is inevitable, people aren't in any way obliged to like whatever is changed? Change for the sake of change does not always yield good results. If WotC decided to put ray guns and space marines into D&amp;D, would you still be saying &quot;adapt or die?&quot; I certainly hope not.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Falling Icicle, post: 3862727, member: 17077"] Last I checked D&D is the most popular fantasy RPG. I don't buy this nonsense that anything they're changing will attract more people to the game. Nobody is going to buy the 4e book because there are Eladrins, points of light, or a new background for demons and devils. If they've read the book enogh to notice those things, they're already interested in the game. What gets most people interested in the game? Their friends that are playing it. It's the grassroots that keeps pen and paper RPGs strong. And that's exactly the audience that WotC risks insulting by treating their style of gaming and preferences as if they don't matter. It's not just 40 or 50 year old gamers but the 3e generation as well. Adapt or die? That's nonsense. Hasn't it occured to you that just because some change in a new edition is inevitable, people aren't in any way obliged to like whatever is changed? Change for the sake of change does not always yield good results. If WotC decided to put ray guns and space marines into D&D, would you still be saying "adapt or die?" I certainly hope not. [/QUOTE]

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