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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4688030" data-attributes="member: 19675">I'm solidly in the C, D or E range, personally.Personally, I had very few issues with 3.5, and would have been content with continuing the game's production.However, I understand the RPG business model pretty well, so I can understand the financial need for a new edition.  Options D & E are pretty interchangeable in my eye- I don't think 3.75Ed vs 4Ed as a name only makes much of a difference.  Even "3.5 Revised" would have worked.So, yeah- I would have stuck with the solid foundations of the 3.5 edition, and tweaked what really needed tweaking.  While there are many opinions of what those things were, certain topics kept cropping up more than others- polymorph rules, clunky rules and unclear/contradictory wordings on things like grapple or natural weapons, or even some of the mechanical refinements made by 3PP like Green Ronin, Malhavoc and so forth.I'll echo your caveat- I have no love for 4Ed- but I think its a good FRPG.  Its just not my flavor of D&D.My interpretation of what I've seen and read leads me to believe WotC's claims that 4Ed is selling like gangbusters.  I see it flying off the shelves at my LGSs all the time.However, I also have no reason to doubt the data from a variety of polls I've seen here and elsewhere- namely that 4Ed does much better with those who are new to D&D or RPGs in general than with the game's installed base.For example, a recent poll here showed that among those who disliked the game, slightly less than half of those responding changed their opinions from positive to negative after experiencing the game in some way, while less than 6% of those who like 4Ed changed their opinions from negative to positive.  <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/251283-d-d-4th-edition-change-mind-5.html" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/251283-d-d-4th-edition-change-mind-5.html</a>This could be indicative that those big sales numbers are in no small part due to new blood as opposed to converting the D&D vets.</blockquote>

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