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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 7569663" data-attributes="member: 20564"><p>Before I say anything more - I agree with you. I think 5e is in a sweet spot. It definitely appeals to me.</p><p></p><p>There's a TED talk by Malcolm Gladwell that talks about opinion testers for companies on how to improve their product. It's been a few years, let me try to paraphrase it. This one guy was consulting for Pepsi quite some time back, and they wanted to know about changes to their formula to try to overtake Coke. So they ran batches with it sweeter, with it fizzier, all different variations. And he found spikes all over. So he told them, and they said "give us the right mix of bits", so he approximated it and they came up with a good change.</p><p></p><p>He later went to work for Prego (tomato sauce), who did the same thing. Tried all these different variations. But the spikes were even more pronounced. He was able to convince them to put out multiple products - this one chunky, this one more garlic, etc. And each had it's own market segment. And that's how we started getting a lot of variation because there was one-size-fits-all.</p><p></p><p>So 5e being a great balance is really good. But variations, some chunkier, some quicker, some more narrative, some more realistic, this one more tactical - each variation will have spikes of people who enjoy it "the most". There's audience for that. (Well, maybe not paid audience - the RPG market is rather niche.) But it can scratch a particular itch better.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blue, post: 7569663, member: 20564"] Before I say anything more - I agree with you. I think 5e is in a sweet spot. It definitely appeals to me. There's a TED talk by Malcolm Gladwell that talks about opinion testers for companies on how to improve their product. It's been a few years, let me try to paraphrase it. This one guy was consulting for Pepsi quite some time back, and they wanted to know about changes to their formula to try to overtake Coke. So they ran batches with it sweeter, with it fizzier, all different variations. And he found spikes all over. So he told them, and they said "give us the right mix of bits", so he approximated it and they came up with a good change. He later went to work for Prego (tomato sauce), who did the same thing. Tried all these different variations. But the spikes were even more pronounced. He was able to convince them to put out multiple products - this one chunky, this one more garlic, etc. And each had it's own market segment. And that's how we started getting a lot of variation because there was one-size-fits-all. So 5e being a great balance is really good. But variations, some chunkier, some quicker, some more narrative, some more realistic, this one more tactical - each variation will have spikes of people who enjoy it "the most". There's audience for that. (Well, maybe not paid audience - the RPG market is rather niche.) But it can scratch a particular itch better. [/QUOTE]
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