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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WesSchneider" data-source="post: 4899205" data-attributes="member: 74102">All really neat ideas. I really like the whole cobbling the best from various systems approach. Heck, if we could, I might even be tempted to get some Call of Cthulhu brand sanity stuff in the system. But we'll save that for the day when all game systems are open and we can make PathDungeons & Cthulhus (Cthulhus & Dragonfinders?).You know, as an aside since we're talking about things 4E does nicely. One thing 4E has done quite well is attracted a number of folks who have never played an RPG to the game. I think an incredible example of this is over on the Penny Arcade forums, where you see tons of threads from folks saying they've never played a tabletop RPG but 4E really appeals to them. This makes sense for a variety of reasons - totally not being snarky here - but I do think there are elements of 4E that appeal to folks well trained in video game RPGs and MMORPGs, and it doesn't hurt that the guys running Penny Arcade and the characters in the comics are 4E fans as well. That's all very cool actually, as in my opinion anything that gets new players invested in the hobby is a total win. The quandary I've been mulling over recently, though, is how do you introduce someone who's played video games all of their lives and has just now been introduced to 4E to other game systems? Sure, in the game stores and person to person works, but I'm starting to feel like there's a very insular sub-community that's formed - folks that don't read ENWorld, don't know or really care about the history of the game, and just play the game they've just found and like while discussing it on forums formerly devoted primarilly to video games. (Again, I think the PA forums are one good example of this, but honestly I've still developing my hypothesis here.) And really, that's all cool, but I think there's the potential to find some very interested and energetic fans should someone figure out how to crack that video-gamer-turned-RPG-gamer shell.</blockquote>

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