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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9326886" data-attributes="member: 7006">The D&amp;D design team has never had an issue with people playing other games.&nbsp; Even when 5E was being developed, they said straight out that they are happy if people play older D&amp;D games and don't move on.&nbsp; Because people who play ANY RPGs keep the hobby alive and inspire people to get into the hobby... and more often than not those will find their way to D&amp;D at some point and thus they get new players and the money will come in.Hasbro might wish to monetize D&amp;D, but that has little to do with these revisions.&nbsp; The design team knows that changing the rules completely so as to force everyone to buy new books would merely cause more people NOT to do so (as we saw with 4E).&nbsp; 5E is too popular to throw it away right now.&nbsp; So revising the rules such that those who want to buy the revisions can and those that don't do not need to, assures everyone that the 5E game is still the one that will bring in the players both old and new to sit at the table.&nbsp; And each subsequent year after release, there will be 5E14 players who didn't upgrade immediately that finally will, when enough other players are wanting to use the newer rules.&nbsp; If they don't, that's fine... but many who say they don't eventually probably will.Hasbro's executives might not understand the reasoning behind all of this (as they didn't regarding the OGL)... but after that blew up in their face it doesn't seem like those people are having any influence with how these new revised books are going to go.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 9326886, member: 7006"] The D&D design team has never had an issue with people playing other games. Even when 5E was being developed, they said straight out that they are happy if people play older D&D games and don't move on. Because people who play ANY RPGs keep the hobby alive and inspire people to get into the hobby... and more often than not those will find their way to D&D at some point and thus they get new players and the money will come in. Hasbro might wish to monetize D&D, but that has little to do with these revisions. The design team knows that changing the rules completely so as to force everyone to buy new books would merely cause more people NOT to do so (as we saw with 4E). 5E is too popular to throw it away right now. So revising the rules such that those who want to buy the revisions can and those that don't do not need to, assures everyone that the 5E game is still the one that will bring in the players both old and new to sit at the table. And each subsequent year after release, there will be 5E14 players who didn't upgrade immediately that finally will, when enough other players are wanting to use the newer rules. If they don't, that's fine... but many who say they don't eventually probably will. Hasbro's executives might not understand the reasoning behind all of this (as they didn't regarding the OGL)... but after that blew up in their face it doesn't seem like those people are having any influence with how these new revised books are going to go. [/QUOTE]

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