[Dork] A New D&D? My uninformed opinions.

So theofotos told me they are making a 5th edition of Dungeons and Dragons, so I feel the need to be wrong on the internet about gaming.  Feel free to skip this, if such things do not interest you.

Yes, WotC, aim it at the kids.  Part of this is simply good business and something that a hobby subsidiary of a massive toy company should find pretty self-evident, but to be perfectly honest, I don’t care about that.  I don’t care how well Wizards or Hasbro does with their product lines.  It would take effort on my part to care less.  D&D 5e should aim younger because I want there to be more gamers.  I want there to be more people playing these games, getting together, having fun, using their imaginations and doing cool things, cool social things, cool adventurous things.  More younger gamers means more gamers who stick with the hobby as they grow and age, which means, in 10 or 15 years,  I will have a much easier time  finding people who game.  It also drags more money into the system which, of course means more products, good and shit, but I’m going to address that point in a moment.  Really, though, it’s all about the more gamers.  I like this hobby, I have fun gaming.  I want other people to have that fun, too.  Role playing can, in a lot of ways, the most democratic form of modern entertainment, the one least dependant on outside production and outside control.  A good rule set can make that play easy to achieve and free people to imagine their own stories.  Sturgeon’s law holds true, but volume affects the 10% as well as the 90%.  Okay, so here is how I would do it: