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<blockquote data-quote="MoonSong" data-source="post: 5845834" data-attributes="member: 6689464">The new edition has to build over 4e as a necessary evil, 4e players are the ones supporting WotC and they can't have the luxury of alienating their current fanbase. The new edition also has to be very friendly to 3ers as that is the current audience Wizards needs to recapture from Paizo (or from being non-buyers at all as in my case) in order to build their market share. It also has to be easy for newcomers so it has room to grow. It has to capture the soul and feel of D&amp;D so the true old-schoolers give it a try, however it shouldn't try too hard to catter to them, it should support their playstyles but never to the detriment of everything else, WotC win nothing by pleasing exclusively people who already have found their &quot;perfect edition&quot; and haven't bought anything new in 20 or so years, specially if that scares away their current customers and those that truly wish to be with them again.I'm not saying somebody has to left out of the new edition, however I'm saying the designers shouldn't fill-up the new edition with old school nostalgia in an attempt to attract people who may as well come, look -but not buy, not even play, at most a 'good they pleased me'- and then go back to play their BECMI campaign as if nothing else had happened. If someone&nbsp; just stayed all of this years playing just AD&amp;D and never switched to any new version, there's no reason to think they will switch this time either. The best chance Wizards has to get any money from them is by making available old books as pdfs and POD not by making the new edition a clone of their edition of choice and making it harder to grasp to those that are eager to embrace the new edition.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MoonSong, post: 5845834, member: 6689464"] The new edition has to build over 4e as a necessary evil, 4e players are the ones supporting WotC and they can't have the luxury of alienating their current fanbase. The new edition also has to be very friendly to 3ers as that is the current audience Wizards needs to recapture from Paizo (or from being non-buyers at all as in my case) in order to build their market share. It also has to be easy for newcomers so it has room to grow. It has to capture the soul and feel of D&D so the true old-schoolers give it a try, however it shouldn't try too hard to catter to them, it should support their playstyles but never to the detriment of everything else, WotC win nothing by pleasing exclusively people who already have found their "perfect edition" and haven't bought anything new in 20 or so years, specially if that scares away their current customers and those that truly wish to be with them again. I'm not saying somebody has to left out of the new edition, however I'm saying the designers shouldn't fill-up the new edition with old school nostalgia in an attempt to attract people who may as well come, look -but not buy, not even play, at most a 'good they pleased me'- and then go back to play their BECMI campaign as if nothing else had happened. If someone just stayed all of this years playing just AD&D and never switched to any new version, there's no reason to think they will switch this time either. The best chance Wizards has to get any money from them is by making available old books as pdfs and POD not by making the new edition a clone of their edition of choice and making it harder to grasp to those that are eager to embrace the new edition. [/QUOTE]

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