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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8692495" data-attributes="member: 18">Yeah and not just them, it needs to fit a multitude of characters/classes from across fiction and videogames. It's just incredibly common to see someone (sometimes an elf, often a woman) with a bow, wearing green or similar tones, often with an animal companion, and/or an ability to talk to animals, and they're not a Druid or someone super-mystical.Define "greed".I think the key reason WotC won't do that is the same reason they always immediately totally shut down the previous edition, which is that they're terrified of splitting their playerbase, and especially terrified (from experience!) that if they do, someone else will swoop in and do their "older" edition better than them (the OGL makes this easy to do, and 5E has the OGL), and grab that playerbase which they voluntarily split off.Is that about "fear"? Absolutely. It is. Fear is what motivates them. So you want a reason not about fear/greed? Well, you want a fake reason. Because that's the real reason right there.Something that's arguably "greed" factors in as well, because they're scared of losing a lot of money. And to them, even if say, only 10% of the players went with the "old edition" version, that'd be "a lot of money".So what WotC are proposing to you is that they do a backwards-compatible 5.5/6E, and you can keep playing with your old, "Apology Edition" materials, but can also buy some of their new stuff. However they do want you to change, in that they're going to stop publishing copies of the old PHB and so on.</blockquote>

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