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<blockquote data-quote="MwaO" data-source="post: 7025285" data-attributes="member: 12749">Mearls is not an expert witness. He's the lead marketer of D&amp;D. He's telling his target audience what they want to hear so they'll purchase D&amp;D stuff. Legends &amp; Lore and Next were a big long marketing campaign to convince 1e/2e/3e/PF players to play 5e. Which meant saying things like that. On Reddit, when asked when he was going to actually do anything for 4e players, he sounded surprised that it was even a concern, and said, &quot;4e fans aren't feeling the love yet. We'll have that covered - just give us some time.&quot;This represents the reasonable sound conclusion that most players of current edition X will at least try edition X+1. It is the ones who aren't playing X, but rather X-1 or X-2 or especially X-1* controlled by a different company that are the ones that need to be convinced to try it out.------And ironically, 5e is the edition that feels least like D&amp;D to me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MwaO, post: 7025285, member: 12749"] Mearls is not an expert witness. He's the lead marketer of D&D. He's telling his target audience what they want to hear so they'll purchase D&D stuff. Legends & Lore and Next were a big long marketing campaign to convince 1e/2e/3e/PF players to play 5e. Which meant saying things like that. On Reddit, when asked when he was going to actually do anything for 4e players, he sounded surprised that it was even a concern, and said, "4e fans aren't feeling the love yet. We'll have that covered - just give us some time." This represents the reasonable sound conclusion that most players of current edition X will at least try edition X+1. It is the ones who aren't playing X, but rather X-1 or X-2 or especially X-1* controlled by a different company that are the ones that need to be convinced to try it out. ------ And ironically, 5e is the edition that feels least like D&D to me. [/QUOTE]

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