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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 8543486" data-attributes="member: 177">You say this as if there's general agreement on what its shortcomings, weakness, or sore spots are.&nbsp; The thing you see as a weakness or shortcoming might well be someone else's happy spot.This is an aspect of being a broadly popular game - suggested changes have a tendency of serving narrow purposes and preferences, rather than the broad audience.&nbsp; A broadly popular game is, by its nature, going to include a large number of compromises, rather than clear optimal choices.&nbsp; A person with specific preferences is apt to find some of those compromises to be weaknesses, and want them &quot;fixed&quot;, when really they serve a purpose in a broader context.A variation of, &quot;if it ain't broke, don't fix it,&quot; is, &quot;Don't make perfect the enemy of good.&quot;&nbsp; In our context, given how well D&amp;D is doing, that probably means not worrying so much about whether the core product gets what you see as weaknesses fixed, but allowing house rules or third party publishers handle that.&nbsp; Let WotC optimize for broad popularity, proven empirically, and leave others to do the experimenting.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 8543486, member: 177"] You say this as if there's general agreement on what its shortcomings, weakness, or sore spots are. The thing you see as a weakness or shortcoming might well be someone else's happy spot. This is an aspect of being a broadly popular game - suggested changes have a tendency of serving narrow purposes and preferences, rather than the broad audience. A broadly popular game is, by its nature, going to include a large number of compromises, rather than clear optimal choices. A person with specific preferences is apt to find some of those compromises to be weaknesses, and want them "fixed", when really they serve a purpose in a broader context. A variation of, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it," is, "Don't make perfect the enemy of good." In our context, given how well D&D is doing, that probably means not worrying so much about whether the core product gets what you see as weaknesses fixed, but allowing house rules or third party publishers handle that. Let WotC optimize for broad popularity, proven empirically, and leave others to do the experimenting. [/QUOTE]

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