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<blockquote data-quote="thedungeondelver" data-source="post: 5635842" data-attributes="member: 34865"><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'">Here's what I think: I think part of what's being done here is an attempt to offer a "third way" to people who want to play older editions of <strong>D&D</strong>. Now, I'd like to ask that we don't get off on a tangent where someone argues that people who play older editions are financially insignificant, that you can count the numbers of <strong>AD&D</strong> fans on one hand, etc. because we're talking about pen and paper RPGs. Every <em>penny</em> counts in a down hobby in a down economy. <strong>WIZARDS OF THE COAST</strong> can't not notice what <strong>OSRIC</strong> and <strong>PATHFINDER</strong> are taking from them - so even if they'd just pull in a few extra hundred or thousand bucks here and there, it's a win for them.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'">So what I see here is them saying "Okay this new system allows all you guys who want your old-school <strong>AD&D</strong> dungeon crawls into the same big tent with people who want near <strong>EXALTED</strong> levels of gaming provided by 4e and onward, and that way everybody's happy because everybody can play the game called <strong>DUNGEONS & DRAGONS</strong> and nobody has to go track down some weird alternative or dig up moldy old books that cost an arm and a leg! Win-win!"</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'">I see this failing miserably. The horse has already left the barn, that ship has sailed, that noun has verbed. But what else can they do? Again, in a down economy, in a down hobby, even a couple of minor "cuts" can be deadly, and they have to try and apply as many bandages as possible.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'">They're <em>not</em> going to reprint <strong>AD&D</strong>. They're <em>not</em> going to give us the .PDFs back. They're <em>not</em> going to release a rule system that is truly old-school. Introducing a modularity to the rules that permits <strong>AD&D</strong> or 3e style play - <em>IF</em> that's what they're talking about - is all they can do to try and keep their current base and effect a stop-loss of prior players who might still consider coming back. For the record I am not one of these but despite the mechanical nightmare it might be I would appreciate the "goodwill" of such a gesture and might even buy it. I'd appreciate the return of .PDFs more but, again, for various reasons (and don't kid yourselves - piracy ain't one of 'em) they're not going to do that.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="thedungeondelver, post: 5635842, member: 34865"] [font=century gothic] Here's what I think: I think part of what's being done here is an attempt to offer a "third way" to people who want to play older editions of [b]D&D[/b]. Now, I'd like to ask that we don't get off on a tangent where someone argues that people who play older editions are financially insignificant, that you can count the numbers of [b]AD&D[/b] fans on one hand, etc. because we're talking about pen and paper RPGs. Every [i]penny[/i] counts in a down hobby in a down economy. [b]WIZARDS OF THE COAST[/b] can't not notice what [b]OSRIC[/b] and [b]PATHFINDER[/b] are taking from them - so even if they'd just pull in a few extra hundred or thousand bucks here and there, it's a win for them. So what I see here is them saying "Okay this new system allows all you guys who want your old-school [b]AD&D[/b] dungeon crawls into the same big tent with people who want near [b]EXALTED[/b] levels of gaming provided by 4e and onward, and that way everybody's happy because everybody can play the game called [b]DUNGEONS & DRAGONS[/b] and nobody has to go track down some weird alternative or dig up moldy old books that cost an arm and a leg! Win-win!" I see this failing miserably. The horse has already left the barn, that ship has sailed, that noun has verbed. But what else can they do? Again, in a down economy, in a down hobby, even a couple of minor "cuts" can be deadly, and they have to try and apply as many bandages as possible. They're [i]not[/i] going to reprint [b]AD&D[/b]. They're [i]not[/i] going to give us the .PDFs back. They're [i]not[/i] going to release a rule system that is truly old-school. Introducing a modularity to the rules that permits [b]AD&D[/b] or 3e style play - [i]IF[/i] that's what they're talking about - is all they can do to try and keep their current base and effect a stop-loss of prior players who might still consider coming back. For the record I am not one of these but despite the mechanical nightmare it might be I would appreciate the "goodwill" of such a gesture and might even buy it. I'd appreciate the return of .PDFs more but, again, for various reasons (and don't kid yourselves - piracy ain't one of 'em) they're not going to do that. [/font] [/QUOTE]
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