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<blockquote data-quote="Puggins" data-source="post: 7652278" data-attributes="member: 12386"><p>You only need to look at the 2e/3e handover to see the power of the D&D brand name. You can even draw quite a few parallels between now and then, honestly.</p><p></p><p>The late nineties were a bad time for D&D, at least from my perspective. I think D&D was in dead heat with the Storyteller system in terms of sales, TSR was in the gutter, and a lot of former D&D players were wandering off to try a lot of the systems that had popped up around that time- and there were quite a few good systems even back then.</p><p></p><p>Then 3e came out, and the eyes of the entire roleplaying world swung around to d20. Again, this is speaking from my perspective, but the transition was radical- dozens of friends that had played D&D but were no longer into it came stampeding back. It was shocking to me.</p><p></p><p>Can 5e do the same thing? The answer is yes- the D&D name just has that much pull. But talking about what a product CAN do is different from talking about what it WILL do. Will it do the same thing? I have serious doubts that it will.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Puggins, post: 7652278, member: 12386"] You only need to look at the 2e/3e handover to see the power of the D&D brand name. You can even draw quite a few parallels between now and then, honestly. The late nineties were a bad time for D&D, at least from my perspective. I think D&D was in dead heat with the Storyteller system in terms of sales, TSR was in the gutter, and a lot of former D&D players were wandering off to try a lot of the systems that had popped up around that time- and there were quite a few good systems even back then. Then 3e came out, and the eyes of the entire roleplaying world swung around to d20. Again, this is speaking from my perspective, but the transition was radical- dozens of friends that had played D&D but were no longer into it came stampeding back. It was shocking to me. Can 5e do the same thing? The answer is yes- the D&D name just has that much pull. But talking about what a product CAN do is different from talking about what it WILL do. Will it do the same thing? I have serious doubts that it will. [/QUOTE]
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