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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 5514293" data-attributes="member: 18280">PERSONAL OPINIONS ONLY and I am only posting in case someone from WotC is reading, and it might make any difference at all.  Hence, let me hope against hope and try a mention ([MENTION=697]mearls[/MENTION]).Please do not announce 5e any time soon.I don't play 4e.  I don't play 3e anymore, either.  But even I can see that you haven't scratched the surface of what 4e could be.  What I would like you to do is:(1)  Create options that expand what you can do with the current ruleset.  Specifically, options for faster, gridless combat.  You've dropped the minis now, so there is no reason not to. (2)  Stop thinking One Delve Fits All Encounters.  That format is the bane of the edition, IMHO, and has kept you from imagining what the system itself could really do.  To whit; the biggest problem with the edition, IMHO, is the feeling of artificial constraint, and the largest contributor to that feeling is the Delve. Some really cool ideas were being bandied about when you were designing 4e.  A return to the Forbidden City of I1, for example.  What happened to that?  My guess is, it didn't fit the Delve format. Really, take a look at any of the best loved modules of earlier editions.  Now try to rewrite them into the Delve format, without losing the things that make them great. (And if anyone here thinks that is easy, I double-dog-dare you to demonstrate it!) (3)  An edition lives or dies on the quality of its adventures.  Go through your 4e materials, and look at all that great fluff.  There is some really great material there.  No, I am not joking.  I am not a fan, but I know great ideas when I read them. Now, take all that fluff, and see what you can do with it outside the Delve format.  Make some really kick-ass adventures.  You need some adventures that even folks who don't play 4e want to try.  You need some adventures that are so good that some folks will try the game just to play in them.  IMPORTANT NOTE:  A great adventure is one that empowers the players and GM to make their own story out of interactions with the materials presented. And the first adventure?  Make it the most kick-ass of the kick-ass.  And make it cheap, even if you have to run a loss.  Because the value of buzz is great, my friends.  It can work for you, as well as against you.I don't like 4e.  I have invested a lot of time and effort in designing a ruleset that serves my specific needs.  But you could still draw me in, if you did that.  You could still make me want to like 4e.  You could still make me give it another try.  And, if the adventures really, really rocked, you could turn me around.And, if you could turn me around, well....let's say that there are easier folks out there to turn around.But I think 5e, now, is shooting yourself in the foot.  Or the head.  IMHO.  YMMV.  The people who don't like 4e will be saying "Told you so!" and the people who do like 4e will be upset.  There's just no winning that way.  5e has to ride a crest of optimism about your design work when it comes.  You cannot be your own opposition.Best of luck with whatever you decide.RC</blockquote>

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