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<blockquote data-quote="BryonD" data-source="post: 6558703" data-attributes="member: 957"><p>Very true. It all ties back to the complaints (at the time) about how D20 was slowing innovation because so many people were doing D20 stuff. Though I'll guess you will agree with me that it did end up speeding up the indie effort in the long run as tons of designers started go further and further from core, and ultimately leaving it behind altogether.</p><p></p><p></p><p>"gamer" is a pretty vague term. WotC made it very clear at the time that they felt like the "gamer" community was vastly bigger than the TTRPG-gamer community and they thought they could change that.</p><p></p><p>In the general sense, of course 4E was intensely "gamer-focused". But the vast majority of non-TTRPG gamers remained non-TTRPG gamers.</p><p>In the TTRPG sense 4E was highly gamer focused if you were in the niche it fit, notsomuch if you were not. Which of course means the term ends up not having a useful definition for this use.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BryonD, post: 6558703, member: 957"] Very true. It all ties back to the complaints (at the time) about how D20 was slowing innovation because so many people were doing D20 stuff. Though I'll guess you will agree with me that it did end up speeding up the indie effort in the long run as tons of designers started go further and further from core, and ultimately leaving it behind altogether. "gamer" is a pretty vague term. WotC made it very clear at the time that they felt like the "gamer" community was vastly bigger than the TTRPG-gamer community and they thought they could change that. In the general sense, of course 4E was intensely "gamer-focused". But the vast majority of non-TTRPG gamers remained non-TTRPG gamers. In the TTRPG sense 4E was highly gamer focused if you were in the niche it fit, notsomuch if you were not. Which of course means the term ends up not having a useful definition for this use. [/QUOTE]
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