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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ulrick" data-source="post: 5455760" data-attributes="member: 775">In my case, I played 4e for about three months, discovered it didn't suit my gaming tastes, and went back to 3.5e and even AD&D 2e for a brief time. I'm sure this is probably a summary of what happened with a lot of other gamers out there. An significant portion problably only looked at 4e and made similar assumptions. Another portion were probably annoyed with WotC for various reason (early release, the destruction of "sacred cows", incompatibilty of the rules with previous editions, etc, etc, ad infinitum). Currently, with D&D Essentials, many are probably seeing how WotC views their favorite game as just a commodity, rather than a product worthy of time investment. All of these reasons, and more (with exceptions and other stuff not included in my analysis, but covered in this thread and in the blogosphere) point to 4e not being as popular as anticipated. Who really knows? Everytime somebody comes with an answer, another person chimes in with a counterpoint. And the dichotomy the "ideal game vs. the actual game" continues, sometimes escalating or devolving (depending on your point of view) into another skirmish or battle in the ongoing Edition War. We'll probably see the same thing if and when 5e gets churned out.Not that I'm completely cynical... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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