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<blockquote data-quote="PMárk" data-source="post: 6920010" data-attributes="member: 6804619">Oh, I agree with that completely. You could do crunch without short-time bloat, you could do settings without the setting bloat of 2e, etc. I agree WotC now somewhat struggle to find the medium ground.

It depends. If your target audience is the most casual and new gamer, it could work. I saw that in a martial arts school, when the school's main profile is the beginner-intermediate classes. It means that there is a lot of casual practitioners, who are there for a little sword-swinging and the community, but the fallout is also high and there's a lot less experienced practitioners and researchers, most of them (90+ %) are instructors. It works, because there's always enough new blood coming in, but it's offerings for experienced people are much more limited. It has a skewed demography. It's not a McDojo, it's a good school, but it has a certain focus. I might add, that it has far-far more students than other more &quot;elitist&quot;, more competition, or research focused groups.

I think D&amp;D recently is heading that way as an easy to access, easy gateway rpg. I don't say it isn't a good strategy from a purely business standpoint. It's just makes it a less interesting rpg product on the long run. I think if things staying this way, we'll see a trend of gamers migrating to other games if they're staying with the hobby for longer than 2-3 years. 
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[QUOTE="PMárk, post: 6920010, member: 6804619"] Oh, I agree with that completely. You could do crunch without short-time bloat, you could do settings without the setting bloat of 2e, etc. I agree WotC now somewhat struggle to find the medium ground. [LEFT][COLOR=#000000] It depends. If your target audience is the most casual and new gamer, it could work. I saw that in a martial arts school, when the school's main profile is the beginner-intermediate classes. It means that there is a lot of casual practitioners, who are there for a little sword-swinging and the community, but the fallout is also high and there's a lot less experienced practitioners and researchers, most of them (90+ %) are instructors. It works, because there's always enough new blood coming in, but it's offerings for experienced people are much more limited. It has a skewed demography. It's not a McDojo, it's a good school, but it has a certain focus. I might add, that it has far-far more students than other more "elitist", more competition, or research focused groups. I think D&D recently is heading that way as an easy to access, easy gateway rpg. I don't say it isn't a good strategy from a purely business standpoint. It's just makes it a less interesting rpg product on the long run. I think if things staying this way, we'll see a trend of gamers migrating to other games if they're staying with the hobby for longer than 2-3 years. [/COLOR][/LEFT] [/QUOTE]

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