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Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft Review Round-Up – What the Critics Say
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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 8287591" data-attributes="member: 85555"><p>Sure. One of the appeals of the OSR is you can basically make D&D but without the things in D&D that annoy you, and with the things you think it ought to have. I love that about the OSR. But that doesn't mean that D&D itself ought to emulate the games in the OSR that have stripped out something which could be deemed essential. Yes changing the game, hacking it is part of what people have always done. But the core game, put out by the company that currently holds the IP, needs to cleave enough to its essence, that it doesn't fragment the player base the way 4E did. My caution here is to say, people seem to have forgotten just how fragmented things were in the wake of 4E. The point is D&D can't take its player base for granted, because if they make an edition that forty percent of people thing isn't D&D enough, those people all now have plenty of alternatives they can go to.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 8287591, member: 85555"] Sure. One of the appeals of the OSR is you can basically make D&D but without the things in D&D that annoy you, and with the things you think it ought to have. I love that about the OSR. But that doesn't mean that D&D itself ought to emulate the games in the OSR that have stripped out something which could be deemed essential. Yes changing the game, hacking it is part of what people have always done. But the core game, put out by the company that currently holds the IP, needs to cleave enough to its essence, that it doesn't fragment the player base the way 4E did. My caution here is to say, people seem to have forgotten just how fragmented things were in the wake of 4E. The point is D&D can't take its player base for granted, because if they make an edition that forty percent of people thing isn't D&D enough, those people all now have plenty of alternatives they can go to. [/QUOTE]
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