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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jaeger" data-source="post: 8686311" data-attributes="member: 27996">I agree. the B/X essentially 'made' D&D, and set a tone for the game that lasted for decades.I don't think so. 3.x had several years of life left in it, and many thought 4e came too soon.Irrespective of anyone's opinion of the system, the release of 4e did cause a split in the D&D fanbase that PF exploited.It is worth noting though that while PF did outsell 4e - It only really outsold it by a little bit.That is why in my opinion WotC made the call to shift to 5e so quick when the writing was on the wall: D&D doesn't outsell or get outsold by "a little bit". D&D is the dominant RPG IP because it outsells its nearest competitor by multiple orders of magnitude; controlling the RPG market.That was beginning to slip under 4e. So we got the quick shift to 5e...Although many other stores continued to sell D&D - people forget exactly how big Sears and JC Penny were back in the day.That + the horrific Mismanagement at TSR was a double blow that was hard to come back from.CR would have to release their "D&D" at the right time. It would take both WotC botching something pretty big in their 2024 not new edition releases, and CR getting their rules set just right, and absolutely nailing it on landing.Even then it would take years to chip into D&D's player network. And that it assuming that WotC wouldn't do what they did with 4e, and use that fat megacorp budget to pivot to a new edition to undercut what CR was doing...</blockquote>

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