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<blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 4410553" data-attributes="member: 3649">Unless something really changes, I can't see them bothering. Gamers have shown that, unless it's named 'D&amp;D', they will not flock to a 'new game system' in numbers enough to matter. There have been a number of game systems out there, some offering a much better rules system or play experience than D&amp;D, and they've all been 'also rans'. It just a matter of economics. Why waste time putting together a design team when you know that it's probably going to be a one-hit wonder? You'll win an Ennie or two for excellent game design and then people will forget you and go back to playing D&amp;D. Quick, name the 2007 Ennies Best Game. Are you playing it? Have you ever played it? Do you know anyone playing it? Arcana Unearthed and Blue Rose were the Gold and Silver Best d20 Game in 2005, both strong and well-positioned games that offered exciting new interpretations of the d20 rules, yet one is unsupported and the other is probably causing most of you to go 'never heard of it'. And those were for games that were D&amp;D in all but name only; how is a completely original game going to fair?I think we all saw that when the OGL came out. Everyone and their brother immediately dropped what they were doing to ride on the 3E coattails. How many original in-print games have come out since 2000? Not all that many.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="WayneLigon, post: 4410553, member: 3649"] Unless something really changes, I can't see them bothering. Gamers have shown that, unless it's named 'D&D', they [B]will not[/B] flock to a 'new game system' in numbers enough to matter. There have been a number of game systems out there, some offering a much better rules system or play experience than D&D, and they've all been 'also rans'. It just a matter of economics. Why waste time putting together a design team when you know that it's probably going to be a one-hit wonder? You'll win an Ennie or two for excellent game design and then people will forget you and go back to playing D&D. Quick, name the 2007 Ennies Best Game. Are you playing it? Have you ever played it? Do you know anyone playing it? Arcana Unearthed and Blue Rose were the Gold and Silver Best d20 Game in 2005, both strong and well-positioned games that offered exciting new interpretations of the d20 rules, yet one is unsupported and the other is probably causing most of you to go 'never heard of it'. And those were for games that were D&D in all but name only; how is a completely original game going to fair? I think we all saw that when the OGL came out. Everyone and their brother immediately dropped what they were doing to ride on the 3E coattails. How many original in-print games have come out since 2000? Not all that many. [/QUOTE]

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