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Message: <blockquote data-quote="amnuxoll" data-source="post: 4299822" data-attributes="member: 13028">Now that 4e is out, I think it would be revealing (and fun) to review some of the things designers of 3e and 3.5e said that are relevant to 4e.  Remember this interview that Monte Cook did with Skip Williams?<a href="http://www.montecook.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi?int_dnd30_Skip" target="_blank">http://www.montecook.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi?int_dnd30_Skip</a>Below are two quotes from it that might be of interest.  This one is about how the design of the 3e skill system:"One example of this kind of tinkering is the skill system. Theoriginal plan called for an extremely simple skill system that wasstrictly tied to character level. Your character had a limited numberof skills, but you automatically got better at them as you went up inlevel (just as your saving throw and attack bonuses got better withlevel). That system proved much too simplistic for anyone's tastes,and the debate about how to replace what we had with a workable systemoften got heated, to say the least."And this prediction about future versions after 3.5e:"At present, we have a game that's fairly easy to learn, but somewhathard to master because the rules contain so many exceptions andspecial cases, and because the rules allow so many different kinds ofcharacters. The general trend for the future, I think, will be towardan ever more complex game. The current audience seems to crave morerules for handling oddball situations, and there's a sub-communitythat seeks ever more powerful and flamboyant characters. The challengefor the next edition's design team will be to preserve the game's coreas something that veterans will love and beginners can handle while atthe same time offering people who want to push the envelope ways to dothat."Does anyone else have interesting past predictions about 4e?:AMN:</blockquote>

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