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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 7025315" data-attributes="member: 82106">Oh, there were plenty of people who, ridiculously, claimed 4e "wasn't D&D" and blah blah blah blah blah. That Mearls quote is being stretched pretty far too. Mike never EVER said HE didn't think 4e was D&D or that it DID 'replace D&D fans with new ones' or any other such ridiculous thing. He was just addressing such hyperbole. Then he goes on to say that he wants to provide such people with a game they will like. That's all well and good, and I think its pretty clear, as you have pointed out, that Mearls himself wanted some other version of D&D for his own personal reasons.Honestly, IMHO, it is a terrible business mistake to put in charge of your product line a person who doesn't believe in your product, and WotC never should have made Mike Mearls its head D&D guy in the 4e era. However it was just par for the course of execrable business decisions WotC has made in the D&D line. I don't know if the people who made those are still around, it was obviously a level above Mearls or the people who came before him, but I expect they have to have changed something at higher levels, because they certainly are at least clear now on what they're trying to do. Perhaps that is just a result of management leaving D&D to figure its own way out, and at least now Mearls has a game he LIKES, much as it chaffs me that he did such a bad disservice to my own preferred game.</blockquote>

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