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<blockquote data-quote="Truename" data-source="post: 5788451" data-attributes="member: 78255">Sounds to me like he's saying Ravenloft taught them that they don't need to modify D&amp;D to take advantage of the business opportunities of new gaming trends. Instead, they can make other products to take advantage of those trends and those products will be bring players to the core D&amp;D RPG.For example, 4e has a very strong eurogame influence in its rules design and presentation. (I say this as a 4e DM.) Reading between the lines, I'd guess that 4e was designed that way in order to bring in new players--to take advantage of the rising popularity of board games like Settlers of Catan. Mearls is saying that they've learned that they didn't need to do that; they could have made the Ravenloft board game to appeal to Catan players and it still would have brought new players to the core D&amp;D game.Keep in mind that Mearls is a manager now, not a designer. When he talks about &quot;success&quot; and &quot;learning things,&quot; he's just as likely to be talking about D&amp;D as a business as he is to be talking about it as a game.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Truename, post: 5788451, member: 78255"] Sounds to me like he's saying Ravenloft taught them that they don't need to modify D&D to take advantage of the business opportunities of new gaming trends. Instead, they can make [i]other[/i] products to take advantage of those trends and those products will be bring players to the core D&D RPG. For example, 4e has a very strong eurogame influence in its rules design and presentation. (I say this as a 4e DM.) Reading between the lines, I'd guess that 4e was designed that way in order to bring in new players--to take advantage of the rising popularity of board games like Settlers of Catan. Mearls is saying that they've learned that they didn't need to do that; they could have made the Ravenloft board game to appeal to Catan players and it still would have brought new players to the core D&D game. Keep in mind that Mearls is a manager now, not a designer. When he talks about "success" and "learning things," he's just as likely to be talking about D&D as a business as he is to be talking about it as a game. [/QUOTE]

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