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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JeffB" data-source="post: 6046454" data-attributes="member: 518">AFAIC, nothing to move on from really. NEXT is a constantly fluctuating playtest subset of a unfinished rules manuscript.  I see cool things, I see dead people. I could never make a final decision based on the mess it currently is. I do not think their goals are obtainable, despite what seems to be genuine goodwill to the entire D&D community. I also think between the OGL giving your competition your biggest asset, revising it too soon and pissing off publisher and fan alike, dropping a sucessfull game like 3.x, offering a radical alternative (good game it may be, I dig it) alienating more fans by not taking into account that  DnD is SERIOUS BIZZNEZZ for alot of us DnD nerds ( I thought the ads and cartoons were funny, oh well), and having a huge chunk of your fanbase go over to the company you used to license to,are the nails in the coffin. The game is not dead by any means, but cannot be all things to all people, thedesign team has absolutely no clue what is important to the OSR/Grog crowd,  and as long as WOTC remains driven to any extent by a large megacorp  who has far more profitable properties  rather than a private company who is making a living off their love of the game, D&D will never regain is status of the fad era or the early d20 boom.   They have continued to screw the pooch since 2002ish, and it parallels in  many ways TSR's demise under Mrs. Williams.My 2 lunars.</blockquote>

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