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<blockquote data-quote="Derren" data-source="post: 6167741" data-attributes="member: 2518">As it was said already, uniting who? Pathfinder players? 13th Age players? D&amp;D 4E players?WotC has bigger problems than their customers being divided over several editions. They lost them to other products. And without them there isn't much left to unify.If WotC wants those players back than 5E must be better than what they are playing now. It must be a better Pathfinder than Pathfinder, a better 4E than 4E, a better Castle &amp; Crusades than...And that is pretty much impossible to achieve as some of those games are opposed. Someone who left D&amp;D for Pathfinder instead of switching to 4E certainly won't come back for even more 4E mechanics, while avid 4E players will not like it when the next version includes more 3E rules they were glad to be rid off.What WotC tries to do with 5E seems to be to throw away all their cards and draw a completely new hand (I am sure there is a poker term for that), hoping that what they get is drawing enough people from all groups to sustain itself. The &quot;uniting&quot; part of the description is imo only advertising.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Derren, post: 6167741, member: 2518"] As it was said already, uniting who? Pathfinder players? 13th Age players? D&D 4E players? WotC has bigger problems than their customers being divided over several editions. They lost them to other products. And without them there isn't much left to unify. If WotC wants those players back than 5E must be better than what they are playing now. It must be a better Pathfinder than Pathfinder, a better 4E than 4E, a better Castle & Crusades than... And that is pretty much impossible to achieve as some of those games are opposed. Someone who left D&D for Pathfinder instead of switching to 4E certainly won't come back for even more 4E mechanics, while avid 4E players will not like it when the next version includes more 3E rules they were glad to be rid off. What WotC tries to do with 5E seems to be to throw away all their cards and draw a completely new hand (I am sure there is a poker term for that), hoping that what they get is drawing enough people from all groups to sustain itself. The "uniting" part of the description is imo only advertising. [/QUOTE]

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