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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Upper_Krust" data-source="post: 3314218" data-attributes="member: 326">Hey Aus_Snow! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Well I say it is and you haven't suggested a better alternative, so how can you say I am wrong and you are right? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />Its the current best idea for making D&D a success in my opinion. It may not be the current best idea for placating D&D elitists, but I don't think any new incarnation of D&D can do that.Any kind of pen & paper 4th Edition has the catch 22 of a) Needing to be different enough to sell new booksb) Being similar enough so as not to render 3.5 purchases obsoleteSo no matter what way they go, its going to alienate a large percentage of current gamers.Depends on your perspective. If you are WotC the problem is how to keep making money from D&D. 3.5 seems to be drying up in terms of what they can do without repeating existing products.A purely pen & paper 4th edition might shift some core rulebooks but beyond that it will either alienate existing 3.5 gamers by straying too far from 3.5 or not entice 3.5 gamers by virtue of simply not being different enough to warrant purchase. So they are damned if they do and damned if they don't.So the problem is where do WotC go from here?I have proffered the idea of targeting the mainstream with a simpler more visceral product. The problem people have been keen to point out is that this idea alienates 72% of existing gamers (according to the poll), but what they don't want to face up to is that ANY idea will alienate existing gamers.</blockquote>

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