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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 6112473" data-attributes="member: 1465">As far as metaphors go... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />You and me need an engine because we know (or believe we know) how and have time to put a nice coachwork around the engine, while we don't know (or believe we don't know) how or don't have time to build the engine ourselves. But then Pathfinder is having a lot of success with selling lots of stories and only a minimum of rules!Fact is, Mearls is not just thinking about you and me, while we keep insisting that we're the ones who make the hobby go forward by buying books regularly, even tho Mearls has said recently that those how buy only 1-3 books are many more than the regulars, so he's making the game not only for us but also for those who aren't yet in the hobby.That's definitely the goal WotC has and should have, but the engine cannot be created only for the veteran drivers because what Mearls has tried to say is that the total money spent on D&D by those who spend a lot of money on D&D, is less than the total money spent on D&D by those (many more) who spend a little money on D&D, and his target of making the second group larger is more worthwhile (economically) than making the first group spend more. In a way, he's thinking about the future while we are thinking about the present.</blockquote>

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