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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 8887781" data-attributes="member: 2067">I do wonder why they believed (correctly, IMO!) that it was a good idea then and believe (incorrectly!) that it is not a good idea now. And I worry that the answer to that is: Daddy Hasbro is just paying attention now that D&amp;D has had some success and most of the rest of Daddy Hasbro's children were already bled dry. That's not good for consumers of the RPG.If history is repeating here, we'll get a OneD&amp;D that does poorly (maybe for some of the same reasons 4e did poorly, such as a contentious community that makes it more effort than it's worth to engage), it'll shrink again, and we'll get a new edition with a return to the OGL next cycle. Reading the tea leaves, their attempt to stop this is apparently to make OneD&amp;D less of a revolutionary change from 5e than the 3e/4e break was, perhaps in an effort to minimize the lost audience. Which really just bills OneD&amp;D as more of an Essentials/3.5/Skills &amp; Powers/&quot;Advanced&quot; half-edition. A 5.5e. It'll be confusing and weird and sell a couple more core books, and then things will lag and the case will be made for a bigger transformation and someone will say &quot;Remember Dark Sun?&quot; and we'll be off to the races again.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 8887781, member: 2067"] I do wonder why they believed (correctly, IMO!) that it was a good idea then and believe (incorrectly!) that it is not a good idea now. And I worry that the answer to that is: Daddy Hasbro is just paying attention now that D&D has had some success and most of the rest of Daddy Hasbro's children were already bled dry. That's not good for consumers of the RPG. If history is repeating here, we'll get a OneD&D that does poorly (maybe for some of the same reasons 4e did poorly, such as a contentious community that makes it more effort than it's worth to engage), it'll shrink again, and we'll get a new edition with a return to the OGL next cycle. Reading the tea leaves, their attempt to stop this is apparently to make OneD&D less of a revolutionary change from 5e than the 3e/4e break was, perhaps in an effort to minimize the lost audience. Which really just bills OneD&D as more of an Essentials/3.5/Skills & Powers/"Advanced" half-edition. A 5.5e. It'll be confusing and weird and sell a couple more core books, and then things will lag and the case will be made for a bigger transformation and someone will say "Remember Dark Sun?" and we'll be off to the races again. [/QUOTE]

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