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<blockquote data-quote="robconley" data-source="post: 7680933" data-attributes="member: 5636">Sorry but that doesn't wash. The fact they decided on a brand strategy is not perninant to the design they chose for a new addition. If it was that insignificant then they were fools in investing any R&amp;D dollars&nbsp; and and just used 3.5 which they already owned and do the new adventures using that system.But they did invest the money the result was a system distinctly different from 3.5 in terms of complexity.Yet Mike Mearls said the OSR was one of the main influence (among others). The head guys is contradicting you. The only reason we are standing here is because 4e got hammered by Pathfinder. This caused the whole strategy behind D&amp;D to be revamped. They needed to have a RPG because market is at the heart of what D&amp;D is. It would like trying to turn Monopoly into a multimedia brand without printing Monopoly games. People would laugh because Monopoloy is first and foremost a boardgame.They would also laugh if the new strategy came out and D&amp;D lagged badly in the market. So they needed to design a new edition that had a shot at being the #1 RPG again. The strategy they opted for wasn't a 3.75 but something that had lighter mechanic that drew on past edition, and current trends in the industry among them the OSR, Fate, and others.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="robconley, post: 7680933, member: 5636"] Sorry but that doesn't wash. The fact they decided on a brand strategy is not perninant to the design they chose for a new addition. If it was that insignificant then they were fools in investing any R&D dollars and and just used 3.5 which they already owned and do the new adventures using that system. But they did invest the money the result was a system distinctly different from 3.5 in terms of complexity. Yet Mike Mearls said the OSR was one of the main influence (among others). The head guys is contradicting you. The only reason we are standing here is because 4e got hammered by Pathfinder. This caused the whole strategy behind D&D to be revamped. They needed to have a RPG because market is at the heart of what D&D is. It would like trying to turn Monopoly into a multimedia brand without printing Monopoly games. People would laugh because Monopoloy is first and foremost a boardgame. They would also laugh if the new strategy came out and D&D lagged badly in the market. So they needed to design a new edition that had a shot at being the #1 RPG again. The strategy they opted for wasn't a 3.75 but something that had lighter mechanic that drew on past edition, and current trends in the industry among them the OSR, Fate, and others. [/QUOTE]

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