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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 4571423" data-attributes="member: 2067">Totally true. In another vein, I don't think it matters because 4e is here to stay for the next 5 or so years, no matter WHAT. The only thing bad sales will do is influence the direction of future supplements and perhaps hasten a 5e. If sales plumetted to 0 tomorrow and stayed that way for the next year (which I don't think will happen, because I do think their sales aren't too shabby, this is hyperbole), it would just change what the PHB3 would look like. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I don't think they'd say that, though. I don't think this is their darling any more than it is anyone's darling. I'm sure every member of that team had to make compromises on the game they thought 4e should be. They're all very justifiably proud of what they've made, but rest assured, 4e would've looked different if it would've been a labor of love over a labor of profit. <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=":)" />I think it became the game that had to please everyone the moment everyone made it such a big success in the tabletop gaming arena. Tabletop gaming is built on social networks.If more people are aware of and playing D&D than any other game, it becomes the game you HAVE to play, more or less. Thus, it becomes more important that the game accommodates your style (or at least lets you house rule it to hell and back). Anyway, that's pop sociology. I actually think part of the reason for 4e's schizophrenia in places is when it tries to please every gamer, so if it was going to be this big of a revolution, they should've just bitten the bullet and revolted rather than trying to rub their bellies and pat their heads at the same time.</blockquote>

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