Nothing would make me happier than for Wizards to announce that Fourth Edition is breaking all prior sales records.Īnd, finally, on to (a): My grinding axe. So, when faced with an opportunity to sit down with the mastermind in charge of the game, of course I asked “Is it true the ship sinking? What are you doing to prevent it sinking?” Not because I want it to sink, but because I’m worried it will sink. If it sinks, it’s likely everything will sink. That concerns me because D&D is the flagship for the entire tabletop RPG industry. And what I have heard from friends and colleagues who work at games retail or in game design has indicated that they do not see Fourth Edition selling as well as they’d like. I have not seen evidence – in the form of press releases, announced sales figures, or retail shelf space – that D&D 4th Edition is doing as well as 3rd Edition or Magic: The Gathering once did. But I do have serious concerns about the future of this hobby that I love.
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I haven’t written an entire column on the how to be a gamemaster because I want RPGs to fail. I certainly have no vested interest in seeing RPGs die. I wanted to give Mearls an opportunity to rebut Dancey on the record, as I believe that the entirety of 4E Red Box and D&D Essentials is a rebuttal of Dancey. You can find the discussion on this point here. With regard to point (b), whether or not D&D is in a “death spiral” the words are Ryan Dancey’s, not mine.
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I’ll be interested in learning what people conclude after reading the full transcript. In any event, at the end of this foreword, we’ve published the entire recorded conversation with Mearls for anyone who is interested.
I have to wonder if much of the criticism of the interview format is simply because so few outlets write this sort of journalism about the gaming industry. Moving on to point (c): When we run interviews in The Escapist magazine issues, they are always conversational pieces similar to what you will read in Rolling Stone or Vanity Fair. But my subtlety failed on the high tension wires of the Internet. As I said on the thread itself yesterday, I thought I was engaging in dry wit, seeing as I linked the post directly for our readers. I apologize to everyone who was confused by this, especially the actual Mike Mearls fans in that thread. But that doesn’t disguise the fact that there’s an underlying attack. The posters on Enworld are making light of this fact, and therein is the humor – they’ve co-opted the attack on Mearls and made it into a joke. But why is there a joke about Mike Mearls ruining things? There is, after all, no thread that says “Chris Pramas (designer of the Dragon Age RPG) ruined everything.” The joke only exists because there are lots of people who do believe Mike Mearls (or others associated with D&D 4th Edition) ruined everything. Let’s start with point (d): The “Mike Mearls ruined everything” thread on Enworld.
I’m not sure if I’m pleased or bothered by the volume of response, but I have read them all and noticed a few recurring items. The recent interview The Escapist conducted with Mike Mearls, D&D Manager for Wizards of the Coast, has provoked a remarkable amount of controversy, with threads on Penny Arcade’s forums and a monstrous 34-page thread on RPG.net.
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