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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8127858" data-attributes="member: 82106">I think the truth is that Gygax struck fire, ONE TIME, and D&D's entire strategy since then has been basically to just stick with the formula. 4e was an exception, to a degree, and you could say that 3e did make some significant mechanical adjustments, but 3e didn't budge on the basic equation, and even 4e only sort of half-covertly subverted a few things.So, that is what they do, they're not really 'trying to please people', they are just taking what worked and doing it again, with a few different frills. One of the consequences of that is, of course, that the same old issues always arise. I mean, the only reason 1e/2e didn't run with endless debates about encounter vs day resources is because wizards were so humongously strong that nobody even thought about it in those terms. So we simply had LFQW, and there were debates about THAT, but only after 3e was released did anyone start to think about when resources should refresh or for whom. It is funny that it is still being debated.</blockquote>