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<blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 7782447" data-attributes="member: 2525"><p>OK, but given the designer comments in this thread, we know that's not happening here. So, why bring it up in this thread?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>So the trade-off is you need to spend a lot of time and testing to get a 5e tweak right, versus saving that time but taking a huge marketability hit? Isn't the obvious answer to that you take the time to develop the tweak well?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Safer for design purposes, but much more risky in terms of sales. And as sales is the ultimate goal...it isn't safer.</p><p></p><p>It's kind of unimaginable just how many people are playing D&D, following some level of D&D news, but have literally never even heard of any other Tabletop RPG. D&D is synonymous with Tabletop RPG to them. They would never be exposed to Savage Worlds, and would never hear news about this game, and would never even be anywhere to happen to see it (because it won't be carried in big box stores if it's not a 5e spinoff either). And on the extreme off-chance they'd ever see it, their reaction to it would very likely be "Oh I am not going to learn some other system if it's not based on D&D" as an initial reaction and never even look at it beyond that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mistwell, post: 7782447, member: 2525"] OK, but given the designer comments in this thread, we know that's not happening here. So, why bring it up in this thread? So the trade-off is you need to spend a lot of time and testing to get a 5e tweak right, versus saving that time but taking a huge marketability hit? Isn't the obvious answer to that you take the time to develop the tweak well? Safer for design purposes, but much more risky in terms of sales. And as sales is the ultimate goal...it isn't safer. It's kind of unimaginable just how many people are playing D&D, following some level of D&D news, but have literally never even heard of any other Tabletop RPG. D&D is synonymous with Tabletop RPG to them. They would never be exposed to Savage Worlds, and would never hear news about this game, and would never even be anywhere to happen to see it (because it won't be carried in big box stores if it's not a 5e spinoff either). And on the extreme off-chance they'd ever see it, their reaction to it would very likely be "Oh I am not going to learn some other system if it's not based on D&D" as an initial reaction and never even look at it beyond that. [/QUOTE]
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