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<blockquote data-quote="M.L. Martin" data-source="post: 5442497" data-attributes="member: 4086">Well, it's true that WotC did push D&amp;D in a much more mini-centered direction once they took over (this, along with the instability of the rules, is one of my two major reasons for not really buying into 4E--and I'd generally abandoned 3E long before), but the collectible miniatures aspect didn't show up until 2003 and 3.5.&nbsp; I do think that WotC tends to be somewhat unstable with regard to their plans for the game (witness the &quot;we'll put out major evergreen supplements and let the OGL support the rest&quot; plan of 2000-2001 or so in comparison to the &quot;lots of hardcovers&quot; model of 3.5 or the DDI push, the &quot;settings killed TSR&quot; vs. the setting search, the rise and fall of the miniatures, and so forth), but I'm not sure if that reflects flexibility and adaptation to a changing marketplace, or a flailing about searching for the 'one thing' that will make D&amp;D as big as it was in the 80s (which was a fluke and a fad, IMO). Probably a mix of both.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="M.L. Martin, post: 5442497, member: 4086"] Well, it's true that WotC did push D&D in a much more mini-centered direction once they took over (this, along with the instability of the rules, is one of my two major reasons for not really buying into 4E--and I'd generally abandoned 3E long before), but the collectible miniatures aspect didn't show up until 2003 and 3.5. I do think that WotC tends to be somewhat unstable with regard to their plans for the game (witness the "we'll put out major evergreen supplements and let the OGL support the rest" plan of 2000-2001 or so in comparison to the "lots of hardcovers" model of 3.5 or the DDI push, the "settings killed TSR" vs. the setting search, the rise and fall of the miniatures, and so forth), but I'm not sure if that reflects flexibility and adaptation to a changing marketplace, or a flailing about searching for the 'one thing' that will make D&D as big as it was in the 80s (which was a fluke and a fad, IMO). Probably a mix of both. [/QUOTE]

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