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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 5959024" data-attributes="member: 29398"><p>I think you're being a bit optimistic when you suggest 4e currently represents half the fanbase.</p><p></p><p>If one could survey every current D&D (or similar) player right now to find what they've mostly played over the last few months, at a guess I think the best you might get is a 40-50-10 split between 4e-3e*-1e** and it might even be 35-50-15.</p><p></p><p>* - includes Pathfinder and other d20 clones</p><p>** - includes 0e, 2e, DCCRPG, OSRIC, and other retro-clones</p><p></p><p>Sad to say, but people who have never played are by default not (yet) part of the split. That said, they certainly cannot be ignored.</p><p></p><p>This statement actually makes two conflicting assumptions that - perhaps fortunately - pretty much cancel each other out; they are:</p><p></p><p>1. balance is important to all who play 4e</p><p>2. balance is not important to all who do not play 4e</p><p></p><p>Neither assumption is true.</p><p></p><p>::shrug:: I'll put up with balance in your D&D if you'll put up with imbalance (or balance defined in vastly different terms) in mine.</p><p></p><p>Lan-"still unbalanced after all these years"-efan</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 5959024, member: 29398"] I think you're being a bit optimistic when you suggest 4e currently represents half the fanbase. If one could survey every current D&D (or similar) player right now to find what they've mostly played over the last few months, at a guess I think the best you might get is a 40-50-10 split between 4e-3e*-1e** and it might even be 35-50-15. * - includes Pathfinder and other d20 clones ** - includes 0e, 2e, DCCRPG, OSRIC, and other retro-clones Sad to say, but people who have never played are by default not (yet) part of the split. That said, they certainly cannot be ignored. This statement actually makes two conflicting assumptions that - perhaps fortunately - pretty much cancel each other out; they are: 1. balance is important to all who play 4e 2. balance is not important to all who do not play 4e Neither assumption is true. ::shrug:: I'll put up with balance in your D&D if you'll put up with imbalance (or balance defined in vastly different terms) in mine. Lan-"still unbalanced after all these years"-efan [/QUOTE]
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