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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 2499382" data-attributes="member: 7883">That's not what I'm saying.  I'm not saying that they don't have Internet connections.  I'm saying that 80% of them (I'm making up a number to represent the idea, not claiming that 80% is the correct stat) are not surfing around reading up about the games etc.  Heck, none of the people that I know who work in game stores, and most players I talk to are not going to the message boards and D20 company websites to read about gaming.  I could go to EN World, RPG.net, WotC, and several other sites, shout out my name and all the core details of the campaign, all the mysteries the PCs are trying to solve etc. and I'd have 0 concern that any of them would ever see these posts.I'm pretty sure WotC actually included that as a question on one of their surveys, and only a very small percentage of gamers responded that they regularly go online to read about the game etc.  We're the small, vocal minority who are Internet enabled, knowledgeable enough to know where to go to find information, and furthermore, care enough to actually post something about it.  So we're a minority of a minority of a minority.The effect to this is that I still remain pretty sure that the fact that the setting is no longer published will continbute to its demise over time.  I'm seeing this happen with Planescape and other settings that have had vibrant fan support.....but even the Planescape mailing list is growing less and less busy.  Without a supply of books and published material, new people have too much difficulty finding out about it.  If there are 100 gamers, and only 6 of them are looking for settings online, what are the chances that one of those 6 are ones that will be interested in that setting?For those of us who are big fans, and are involved in the message boards etc. it's not an issue.  But for new blood, it is.Banshee</blockquote>

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