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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 6094747" data-attributes="member: 82106">Yep! Exactly. The priorities that I would value in an edition of D&D are simply CLEARLY not WotC priorities. The fact that they are pretty basic attributes of an RPG and that DDN lacks ANY of these features, is a perfectly reasonable evidence of this difference in priorities. Like Campbell I don't expect or need a retread of 4e. What I would buy would be a game that had the same core agenda, was at least as much related to D&D flavor-wise as 4e is, and that was executed well-enough that it was at least as good a game as 4e and hopefully flat out improved on it. I might even play it if it was slightly LESS good in terms of my agenda if for instance everyone I play with would rather play it, or whatever. While I will certainly grant El Madhi et al that it is not literally impossible that DDN could become that game, it would require at this time a wholesale restart of DDN development/radical restructuring of almost all elements of the game. Mike has already flat out stated that DDN is largely 'core complete' in terms of major design decisions. So I would have to further believe that some sort of large upset in the staff of WotC would be needed such that other people took Mike's place and changed plans drastically in order for DDN to change this much, or that Mike was just BSing us on that, which I seriously doubt, Mike shoots straight and knows his stuff too well to make stupid statements that are grossly inaccurate. Ergo, DDN is VERY unlikely to meet my needs for a D&D edition. It is NOT just a matter of something that hasn't been addressed yet, or some module that needs to be added. The existing core parts of DDN will not produce the type of game I would like IMHO and don't match my needs. Its OK, like Campbell etc I have 4e and other games. In fact it is probably high time I got out there and ran some other FRPG for a while...</blockquote>

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