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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 6112354" data-attributes="member: 1465"><p>Interesting read...</p><p></p><p>I think I get Mearls' point about the rules. We who are in the hobby since 10, 20 or even 30+ years ago, may want rules over story and feeling, but when we started off decades ago we didn't. </p><p></p><p>Maybe back then we liked the idea of having rules to represent story and action, but certainly we weren't bickering with each other about what is the most realistic or effective spellcasting system or natural healing method... it was all a huge "wow!" effect of being able to <em>direct characters in a story of battles</em> but how many really were hooked because of the rules <em>alone</em>? </p><p></p><p>Mearls is just acknowledging that today a kid is very unlikely to look at a RPG and be inspired to play, if such RPG requires literally <em>days</em> or even weeks of rules study and preparations before you can even start, which can be the case for 3e, 4e and Pathfinder, which is why he's talking about "lowering the entry barrier".</p><p></p><p>Without even trying this, the future of D&D is more difficult, because it relies only in the ability of old gamers to teach their own children to play the game, but it's a feeble hope and a daunting task if such game has monumental rules.</p><p></p><p>In case you haven't noticed, the computer gaming industry is going through a somewhat similar trend (even tho they clearly don't need to worry about their hobby to wane...): the game nerds still get their over-the-top games, but a lot more focus than ever is given by the developers on <em>simple, easily enjoyable</em> games as the famous Angry Birds or <em>physical (i.e. "natural") fun</em> on all the machines like Wii, Kinect, etc...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 6112354, member: 1465"] Interesting read... I think I get Mearls' point about the rules. We who are in the hobby since 10, 20 or even 30+ years ago, may want rules over story and feeling, but when we started off decades ago we didn't. Maybe back then we liked the idea of having rules to represent story and action, but certainly we weren't bickering with each other about what is the most realistic or effective spellcasting system or natural healing method... it was all a huge "wow!" effect of being able to [I]direct characters in a story of battles[/I] but how many really were hooked because of the rules [I]alone[/I]? Mearls is just acknowledging that today a kid is very unlikely to look at a RPG and be inspired to play, if such RPG requires literally [I]days[/I] or even weeks of rules study and preparations before you can even start, which can be the case for 3e, 4e and Pathfinder, which is why he's talking about "lowering the entry barrier". Without even trying this, the future of D&D is more difficult, because it relies only in the ability of old gamers to teach their own children to play the game, but it's a feeble hope and a daunting task if such game has monumental rules. In case you haven't noticed, the computer gaming industry is going through a somewhat similar trend (even tho they clearly don't need to worry about their hobby to wane...): the game nerds still get their over-the-top games, but a lot more focus than ever is given by the developers on [I]simple, easily enjoyable[/I] games as the famous Angry Birds or [I]physical (i.e. "natural") fun[/I] on all the machines like Wii, Kinect, etc... [/QUOTE]
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