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<blockquote data-quote="KidSnide" data-source="post: 5627263" data-attributes="member: 54710"><p>I have a similar reaction. That having been said, I feel like many (most?) of the design motivations behind 4e were reactions to specific problems in the 3.x game. As a result, at least in some ways, 4e moved even further away from some desirable properties of 1e/2e. </p><p></p><p>I think it's refreshing to see the WotC designers taking a step back and think some things through from first principals. There's an element of marketing in this, but I think it's mostly an attempt to create content for DDI. Legends & Lore was introduced as one of 4 columns to provide something new every day. It's just that this column happens to be about game design which is the sort of thing that excites the type of people who post on boards like this.</p><p></p><p>It seems like the entire message board community thinks this series of articles is the forerunner to 5e (and, I suppose, it might be). But we don't really know <em>when</em> Mike had these thoughts. It's easy enough to imagine that he's updating thoughts he had in 2004 or 1996. Surely, WotC is thinking about the next edition (that must always be true). But he could easily be writing these columns just because (1) he has interesting thoughts, (2) the Magazine guys decided they needed 4 weekly columns and (3) he volunteered.</p><p></p><p>Of course, that would be a lot less fun to speculate about...</p><p></p><p>-KS</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KidSnide, post: 5627263, member: 54710"] I have a similar reaction. That having been said, I feel like many (most?) of the design motivations behind 4e were reactions to specific problems in the 3.x game. As a result, at least in some ways, 4e moved even further away from some desirable properties of 1e/2e. I think it's refreshing to see the WotC designers taking a step back and think some things through from first principals. There's an element of marketing in this, but I think it's mostly an attempt to create content for DDI. Legends & Lore was introduced as one of 4 columns to provide something new every day. It's just that this column happens to be about game design which is the sort of thing that excites the type of people who post on boards like this. It seems like the entire message board community thinks this series of articles is the forerunner to 5e (and, I suppose, it might be). But we don't really know [i]when[/i] Mike had these thoughts. It's easy enough to imagine that he's updating thoughts he had in 2004 or 1996. Surely, WotC is thinking about the next edition (that must always be true). But he could easily be writing these columns just because (1) he has interesting thoughts, (2) the Magazine guys decided they needed 4 weekly columns and (3) he volunteered. Of course, that would be a lot less fun to speculate about... -KS [/QUOTE]
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