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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheAuldGrump" data-source="post: 5772047" data-attributes="member: 6957">I have been curious about that - glad to see that my suspicions were correct, that WotC had tried to mend the fences with Essentials.I think that hubris, more than anything else, led to the failures of 4e, that WotC believed that, no matter how radical the changes, folks would follow the new system, then tried to downplay previous editions in an effort to force the issue.Given that the whole point of 3e was that the folks then in charge of WotC had realized that the biggest competitor for D&D was, well, earlier versions of D&D, the more current management should have known better.Wyatt should certainly have known better. Those who do not learn from history, and all that.Add to that the arrogance inherent in the first rendition of the GSL, and well....There would likely have still been a schism, but it would have been lesser. I do not know how much of that apparent arrogance was panic due to the shake up at Hasbro, but the result was schism, rebellion, and a sundering of nations.... (My homebrew is based on the wars of reformation/counter reformation, does it show? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> )I think that WotC would have been better served keeping both 3.X and 4e running in parallel. They did not need to compete.Rather than the glut of 3PP from the 'golden days' of 3.X, the glut for 4e was entirely of WotC's own doing, with an overly aggressive release schedule. (And that, almost certainly, was a result of panic.) Something that TSR had also suffered through.The Auld Grump - those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it, those that do learn from history are doomed to watch others repeat it....*EDIT* My biggest grievance is that WotC had a tremendous amount of good will that had been built up during 3.X, and they squandered it! <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/rant.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":rant:" title="Rant    :rant:" data-shortname=":rant:" /></blockquote>

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