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I have given this alot of thought and I really think WotC is going the wrong direction as a company, trying to create yet another D&D edition.  There's an excellent xkcd cartoon that illustrates perfectly what happens when you try to make a universal standard of anything - and that includes a game system.

So I posted a blog last night on my Neuroglyph Games site, offering a proposal for WotC to consider an alternative publishing model than the "retire current D&D edition... make another edition of D&D" approach. In it is a link to a petition on Change.org, and I’m hoping to get some support from those in the D&D community who are less than thrilled about D&D Next.

Please check out the blog below, and share it if the proposal makes sense to you as both a gamer and a consumer:

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For a game that is ostensibly meant to bring the D&D community back together under one game system, D&D Next appears to be doing the opposite.  I've noted that as we get farther along with the playtesting process, now moving to fully open public playtesting, that the real differences between our various versions of D&D are becoming more and more apparent.

In essence, I'm beginning to realize that there is no one D&D game, there never has been.  Every edition of the game has its group of adherents, who love that version to the exclusion of all others.  And trying to create a game that appeases them all seems obviously destined to fail, and fail badly.

All the polls and all the talk about what is D&D-ness has set those factions within the community against each other.  Oh,...