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Message: <blockquote data-quote="UngeheuerLich" data-source="post: 9318821" data-attributes="member: 59057">... It is a public playtest. Like all playtests it decides what staya and what not. That does not mean popularity is a design goal. The goal is making a workable game that people want to play. If you want to say that they wanted to make a game that is fun that people like. You are right.But lets imagine their design meetings. And their flip charts:"So we are brainstorming our new game. What should we put in. How should we implement it?" "Ah. Lets make a popular game.""Thanks guys. Great input. We are done." So yes maybe their goal was to make a popular game that people like. But you can't design a good game just by making it popular. They needed to find out, what makes the game D&D first. And what makes people actually lile it. So they identified, that slim combat so the game can be played in 1h to 2h sessions that has classical D&D elements in it. And that was the design principle by which they tried to achieve positive reactions.</blockquote>