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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 4679397" data-attributes="member: 710">Do you imply that WotC did not research their audience and just "blindly" (to use the operative word in this thread) picked up everything from MMOs or CRPGs and tried to force it into D&D? I doubt that. I don't feel like that was the case. I think they looked at aspects that lead to interesting and engaging gameplay in games, and some examples of that can be found in MMOs or videogames, but a lot also exist in traditional RPGs. There are differences between these mediums, but that still does not mean that nothing can be transplanted. I am pretty certain that most RPG designers - including those at WotC - understand their medium pretty well. Stories can be told in movies or novels. You will have to adapt the story. Likewise, you can import mechanics from an RPG to an MMO or vice versa. You need to adapt the details of the implementation, but if the basic idea is sound, it is possible. (Whether your specific implementation works - just as with story adaptions to different media - is another matter.)</blockquote>