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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6097491" data-attributes="member: 7006">That's a very good point.&nbsp; And I think you're right... emulation &gt; representation does seem to be Mike's primary focus with the game.&nbsp; And in fact, actually might help them financially in the long run when you couple it with the idea from his last L&amp;L column, which was &quot;less mechanics books&quot; and more story emphasis.If WotC's primary stream of books following the first set of rulebooks is mainly story and adventure focused... AND the final D&amp;DN rules are set up to emulate editions rather than recreate editions... then a player who decides to stick with the 4E ruleset (because it plays like he wants it to) might still actually see and get use out of D&amp;DN books and adventures by adapting them to his 4E game.&nbsp; After all... if D&amp;DN is able to emulate 4E to a certain extent... then those books and adventures will hopefully be written in such a way that a 4E-emulated game using Next *OR* an actual 4E game can use the information with little difficulty.Thus increased sales of D&amp;DN products to players who aren't actually playing D&amp;DN (the same way that all these D&amp;D PDFs are being sold to many players who probably are not actually playing them in their original edition, but are adapting them to their current edition or the Next playtest.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 6097491, member: 7006"] That's a very good point. And I think you're right... emulation > representation does seem to be Mike's primary focus with the game. And in fact, actually might help them financially in the long run when you couple it with the idea from his last L&L column, which was "less mechanics books" and more story emphasis. If WotC's primary stream of books following the first set of rulebooks is mainly story and adventure focused... AND the final D&DN rules are set up to emulate editions rather than recreate editions... then a player who decides to stick with the 4E ruleset (because it plays like he wants it to) might still actually see and get use out of D&DN books and adventures by adapting them to his 4E game. After all... if D&DN is able to emulate 4E to a certain extent... then those books and adventures will hopefully be written in such a way that a 4E-emulated game using Next *OR* an actual 4E game can use the information with little difficulty. Thus increased sales of D&DN products to players who aren't actually playing D&DN (the same way that all these D&D PDFs are being sold to many players who probably are not actually playing them in their original edition, but are adapting them to their current edition or the Next playtest.) [/QUOTE]

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