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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 3932296" data-attributes="member: 22779">Something to remember is they have to look beyond D20.&nbsp; If any game, or novel, or video game or whatever, ANYWHERE has Spellshaper Adept in it, you can't use it because it's someone else's IP.&nbsp; Kind of like say, Blue Star Adept.&nbsp; Oh, wait.&nbsp; That's from Theives World and was written thirty years ago.&nbsp; Sorry, that's taken.&nbsp; I'm willing to imagine that, somewhere, in someone's published fanasy novel, Gold Adept has appeared.&nbsp; Are you willing to go out and license that name from some guy?&nbsp; For every feat?A key draw for YOU maybe.&nbsp; The preponderance and enduring popularity of published game worlds shows that there are lots and lots of gamers for whom world building is not the key draw.&nbsp; It certainly is a draw for a subset of gamers, but, is it a key draw?&nbsp; I'm not so sure.&nbsp; There's a 150 000 RPGA gamers out there who don't do any world building.&nbsp; That's a pretty big chunk right there.Remember, one of the key components of 4e is drawing in new blood.&nbsp; Forcing new DM's to sit down for dozens of hours to create new campaign worlds is NOT a draw for new DM's.&nbsp; Can you use the rules to world build?&nbsp; Of course you can.&nbsp; Will you have to?&nbsp; Nope.&nbsp; And, now, you get more than a bland, flavourless world goverened by wealth by level guidelines.&nbsp; Instead, in the DMG you get a starting town, a complete (if bare bones) history and elements that fit into that history.Yay! We're going back to&nbsp; Basic/Expert D&amp;D.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 3932296, member: 22779"] Something to remember is they have to look beyond D20. If any game, or novel, or video game or whatever, ANYWHERE has Spellshaper Adept in it, you can't use it because it's someone else's IP. Kind of like say, Blue Star Adept. Oh, wait. That's from Theives World and was written thirty years ago. Sorry, that's taken. I'm willing to imagine that, somewhere, in someone's published fanasy novel, Gold Adept has appeared. Are you willing to go out and license that name from some guy? For every feat? A key draw for YOU maybe. The preponderance and enduring popularity of published game worlds shows that there are lots and lots of gamers for whom world building is not the key draw. It certainly is a draw for a subset of gamers, but, is it a key draw? I'm not so sure. There's a 150 000 RPGA gamers out there who don't do any world building. That's a pretty big chunk right there. Remember, one of the key components of 4e is drawing in new blood. Forcing new DM's to sit down for dozens of hours to create new campaign worlds is NOT a draw for new DM's. Can you use the rules to world build? Of course you can. Will you have to? Nope. And, now, you get more than a bland, flavourless world goverened by wealth by level guidelines. Instead, in the DMG you get a starting town, a complete (if bare bones) history and elements that fit into that history. Yay! We're going back to Basic/Expert D&D. [/QUOTE]

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