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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rounser" data-source="post: 4683280" data-attributes="member: 1106">Hasn't it been confirmed that compromises for CRPG compatibility (e.g. ease of powering up) and selling miniatures are part of why 4E has turned out the way it has?  And the exceptions based design and "everything is core" seems a clear effort to emulate M:tG's infinite expandibility.  The admitted deliberate omission of iconic D&D features like frost giants to sell books down the track could be interpreted cynically, as could branding exercises like tieflings and dragonborn on the cover to establish new brand identity.  Handing magical items to a player audience to sell more books could also be interpreted cynically.Or is that all just rumour?But I'm probably being too cynical.  WOTC is a business, after all, and lives in the shadow of Hasbro's demands for performance.  I just suspect that creating a good D&D for purposes of being a good D&D for it's own sake - rather than as a proxy for selling miniatures, books and CRPGS - is at cross purposes to a lot of these goals - if they are goals.</blockquote>