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<blockquote data-quote="ShadowDenizen" data-source="post: 3473815" data-attributes="member: 16485">Interesting thoughts, Najo; very thoughtful, and some good ideas.I agree with you, for the most part.I think they need to illustrate the DIFFERENCES between PNP and CRPGS.And, as I said previously, I think the two breeds of gamers (Console vs. RL) are much more disparate than WizBro seems to think.IMO, I think a BIG step they (&quot;They&quot; being TPTB over at WizBro) need to take is to make the rules system more user-friendly, AND combine that with some sort of useful online applications.&nbsp; (Not having a GOOD character generator avaliable, or good online support was a MASSIVE failure of WotC, IMHO, and [even putting the Paizo debacle aside] doesn't make me think the D.I. will be worthwhile to me.)I think that we can all agree that D+D -needs- to encourage new players to keep it alive? Correct? Well, the rules-heavy 3.5 is, IMO, an impediment to newbies who are considering playing, IMHO.&nbsp; By emphasing the &quot;tacticality&quot; of the game, and attempting to &quot;quantify&quot; everything, they're alowly taking away some of the &quot;wonderment&quot; that we all grew up with.&nbsp; Of course, given that DDM sells like crazy, I'm certain that won't be happening anytime soon.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="ShadowDenizen, post: 3473815, member: 16485"] Interesting thoughts, Najo; very thoughtful, and some good ideas. I agree with you, for the most part. I think they need to illustrate the DIFFERENCES between PNP and CRPGS. And, as I said previously, I think the two breeds of gamers (Console vs. RL) are much more disparate than WizBro seems to think. IMO, I think a BIG step they ("They" being TPTB over at WizBro) need to take is to make the rules system more user-friendly, AND combine that with some sort of useful online applications. (Not having a GOOD character generator avaliable, or good online support was a MASSIVE failure of WotC, IMHO, and [even putting the Paizo debacle aside] doesn't make me think the D.I. will be worthwhile to me.) I think that we can all agree that D+D -needs- to encourage new players to keep it alive? Correct? Well, the rules-heavy 3.5 is, IMO, an impediment to newbies who are considering playing, IMHO. By emphasing the "tacticality" of the game, and attempting to "quantify" everything, they're alowly taking away some of the "wonderment" that we all grew up with. Of course, given that DDM sells like crazy, I'm certain that won't be happening anytime soon. :( [/QUOTE]

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