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<blockquote data-quote="GlaziusF" data-source="post: 4519317" data-attributes="member: 74166">From official WotC sources or from Internet people jumping to Internet conclusions? (which are like regular conclusions, only you know how you can see a web page from Russia in 0.5 seconds? Yeah, same distance compression.) Really, anybody not actually a WotC marketer who talks about WotC's market or target audience or what have you is talking out of a more southern orifice than their mouth. The odds are really, really astronomically high that TSR/WotC/Hasbro never considered you, personally, when making decisions about content and publishing, and they never will. You don't want to buy 4E because there's more things that make you want to not buy it than things that make you want to buy it, not because some marketing drone had a hate on for you and decided to take it out on the dev team. So winkle those things, whatsoever they may be, out of your head with a big pin and stick them on the Internet for everybody to see. You don't have to run with some imagined block of slighted former enthusiasts to keep yourself safe. I bought 4E because it just spit a bunch of cool things for players out to do without giant complex rule systems to describe how to construct them; put out explicit underpinnings for what (from skill checks to monsters) was considered challenging for characters of any level so I feel more confident in designing my own scenarios and monsters and not worrying about the numbers being trivial or impossible; and most importantly put everything I needed to know to completely run a monster in one small, portable, easy-to-parse block so I can cut down the amount of prep I have to do by an order of magnitude.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GlaziusF, post: 4519317, member: 74166"] From official WotC sources or from Internet people jumping to Internet conclusions? (which are like regular conclusions, only you know how you can see a web page from Russia in 0.5 seconds? Yeah, same distance compression.) Really, anybody not actually a WotC marketer who talks about WotC's market or target audience or what have you is talking out of a more southern orifice than their mouth. The odds are really, really astronomically high that TSR/WotC/Hasbro never considered you, personally, when making decisions about content and publishing, and they never will. You don't want to buy 4E because there's more things that make you want to not buy it than things that make you want to buy it, not because some marketing drone had a hate on for you and decided to take it out on the dev team. So winkle those things, whatsoever they may be, out of your head with a big pin and stick them on the Internet for everybody to see. You don't have to run with some imagined block of slighted former enthusiasts to keep yourself safe. I bought 4E because it just spit a bunch of cool things for players out to do without giant complex rule systems to describe how to construct them; put out explicit underpinnings for what (from skill checks to monsters) was considered challenging for characters of any level so I feel more confident in designing my own scenarios and monsters and not worrying about the numbers being trivial or impossible; and most importantly put everything I needed to know to completely run a monster in one small, portable, easy-to-parse block so I can cut down the amount of prep I have to do by an order of magnitude. [/QUOTE]

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