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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Acid_crash" data-source="post: 1709752" data-attributes="member: 16278">If I owned Wizards, my first idea would be to discontinue D&D and focus more on a more generic fantasy rules system...but I would probably lose a lot of money doing that and soon be out of business.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Second notion would be to send a survey to all stores, on internet web sites, and ask people what they would like to see in a 4th edition.  Based on responses over the course of six months to a year, I would then rewrite the game according to most popular responses as well as cool ideas, and write a series of 4th edition books designed for a) Introduction to D&D, b) Advanced rules options, and c) Expert options.  Each would be its own box set, each would expand upon the earlier box sets and I would aim to have them sell retail about 1/3 current PHB prices.  Each would combine elements of being a player and a DM.Then I would write those books previously mentioned on the beginners guide to being a DM and the beginners guide to city adventuring...then probably one for each major section of the wilderness (one for deserts, one for ocean/sea, one for forests/plains/swamps/arctic).Then I would want to write a book based on the different genres, each genre getting about fifteen to twenty pages of information, maybe more depending on content and cost, all aimed at both players and dm's.  Eventually I would come up with a nifty design to ask for a bunch of setting options from 11,000 people and end up creating a system specifically for 4th edition and release that as the new staple of what 4th edition can do.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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