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Message: <blockquote data-quote="M.L. Martin" data-source="post: 5781717" data-attributes="member: 4086">The brand itself? It can be handed over to the OSR or 3.5E loyalists for all I care. <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=":)" />  The things I do care about enough to be interested are:  1. There's a lot of interesting creative material and lore developed for D&D, and a lot of it can only be leveraged by TSR/WotC/the rights holder unless they decide to license it.   2. WotC has the most resources and some of the best people in the industry, so if they go in a direction I find appealing, they're likely to do it quite well, such as a lot of 4E.   I really like what I'm hearing about D&DN--I think I proposed the basic concept a couple of years ago <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=":)" />  (EDIT: Indeed I did--see <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/258381-hypathetical-5e-you-forked-thread-academic-studies-recent-edition-wars-3.html#post4845989" target="_blank">this post.)</a>--and hope they pull it off. I'm even hoping that they release enough playtest material so that, if the experiment fails and they decide to go 3.5+, 1E Redux, or something similar, I'll be able to scavenge the more modular form of the system. <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=":)" /> But beyond a sense of 'wish they'd produce something I was more interested in' and perhaps wasted opportunities, I'm not likely to get too upset.  But then, I'm a strange gamer--I moved away from AD&D about a year after I started, and only Ravenloft kept me interested through much of the 2E period, and even for parts of 3E. For me, D&D is a means to an end, not an end in itself. <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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