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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8880379" data-attributes="member: 18">So you thought? Those are totally compatible motives.The reason they &quot;cleansed&quot; D&amp;D is the same reason they dirtied it up going from 4E to 5E (c.f. Vistani, Orcs, etc. all regressing back to 1E/2E depictions in 5E rather than going forwards with 3E/4E approaches). They thought people would like it better and give them more money.(They were probably right, perhaps in both cases - 5E at launch was the &quot;apology edition&quot; designed to recover people from PF1 and bring back long-time players. But it went huge for various cultural reasons not related to that, and largely with a much younger crowd, who found a few elements of it distasteful, so WotC retool those few elements with that younger crowd in mind.)This &quot;duck move&quot; (waddling?) as you put it has exactly the same goal. Get WotC more money.Is it dumb? Is it utterly failing to read the room? Absolutely.But $$$ y'all.Are they probably reading the room now, given it's been leaked and people are mad? Yeah, they're going &quot;Huh, will angry people give us LESS money? Less money am bad!&quot;. But we shall see.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8880379, member: 18"] So you thought? Those are totally compatible motives. The reason they "cleansed" D&D is the same reason they dirtied it up going from 4E to 5E (c.f. Vistani, Orcs, etc. all regressing back to 1E/2E depictions in 5E rather than going forwards with 3E/4E approaches). They thought people would like it better and give them more [B]money[/B]. (They were probably right, perhaps in both cases - 5E at launch was the "apology edition" designed to recover people from PF1 and bring back long-time players. But it went huge for various cultural reasons not related to that, and largely with a much younger crowd, who found a few elements of it distasteful, so WotC retool those few elements with that younger crowd in mind.) This "duck move" (waddling?) as you put it has exactly the same goal. Get WotC more [B]money[/B]. Is it dumb? Is it utterly failing to read the room? Absolutely. But [B]$$$[/B] y'all. Are they probably reading the room now, given it's been leaked and people are mad? Yeah, they're going "Huh, will angry people give us LESS money? Less money am bad!". But we shall see. [/QUOTE]

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