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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 5428454" data-attributes="member: 5834">2E and 3E were very well-received by the majority of the D&D community. 3E was the most robust period in D&D in its history for sales and game growth. It was what made Hasbro even give the brand a chance more than likely. It did not cause the sort of schism we have now. I have been here since EN World's beginning, I can state with certainty that  3E never came close to causing the schism in the D&D world that 4E caused. Didn't even come within sniffing distance.4E was the biggest disruption to the D&D market I can recall in my 30 years of gaming. I have never seen this type of schism in the D&D market.I have no idea of the financial health of 4E. It may be doing very well. They may have taken a pretty big hit to their market. I don't know. I don't have the numbers. I'd love to see how 4E compares to 3E from initial launch to the present time.I believe 4E split the market like no other edition ever has. It was vastly different from the old editions of D&D. The biggest change in the past 20 years.No idea how 4E will do. I'm not in the loop any longer as far as D&D goes. Don't visit the WotC site. Don't buy 4E. I look forward to Pathfinder releases now for the first since I was 10 years old. So does my group. Very strange time for D&D, that's for sure. I'm not surprised some people wonder what's happening with the game. So many other activities D&D compete against. It used to be D&D competed against itself and other RPG games. Now it competes against the MMORPG market as well.I hope some iteration of D&D will survive into the future. But who knows. Games may become so good that you plug into a virtual world and live D&D. I doubt pen and paper will survive that any more than radio shows like The Lone Ranger and The Whisperer survived the advent of TV.I'll keep playing a pen and paper RPG until I'm dead most likely. Pen and paper should stay around that long. Though whether the D&D brand is still around, I don't know. But it will be interesting to see what happens.</blockquote>

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