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Message: <blockquote data-quote="der_kluge" data-source="post: 2841537" data-attributes="member: 945">I fully admit my position is not easy to defend. I ignored posts because I didn't have a good response for them. I'm not finding it terribly easy to put my thoughts into words with regards to this topic. Yes, it's fine if people want to play those things, but I'm trying to understand their motivation.Are people playing Warlocks (for example) because they want to explore the sorcerous angst and natural disdain of a character and they have a great concept for a backstory, and want to work out a really interesting story - or do people play a Warlock because they can blast things forever, and get really cool abilities, and have damage reduction, and are just really kewl!If people want to play D&D because they want to recreate FINAL FANTASY, then so be it, but I think there are probably better ways of doing that.  I don't think WoTC is adding new PrC/feats/spells/classes/whatever as a way to appeal to a younger demographic and save the dying hobby - I think they are doing it because it's easy.   These books appeal to players - the largest segment of the population. They do it because they make money, and keeps WoTC afloat. I don't think they've specifically gone out of their way to strategically design these classes/whathaveyou with any sort of demographic in mind. I think they just keep churning out stuff, hoping to sale more product. I think you're giving WoTC far more credit than they deserve.And I'm surprised to see so many people here sit back so passively and watch Dungeons and Dragons turn into a Dragonball-Z game.</blockquote>

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