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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Derren" data-source="post: 6081804" data-attributes="member: 2518">That WotC certainly did. And in my eyes the designers were so focused on "making things different" that they totally forgot to look if the change was for the better. Change for the change sake so to speak. But I do not think that the changes in 4E made the game more open.Imo the problem was that WotC did miss that 3E gained a lot of players thanks to its broader focus and also OGL support where 3rd party companies did something "not quite" D&D like. And when they tried to bring D&D back to its roots many of those players rebelled as they didn't care for the roots of D&D and liked the extra stuff 3E added and which was now thrown out again in favor of more streamlined rules (or completely) so that they do not distract from the "real" D&D gameplay (namely tactical minitaure combat).</blockquote>