D&D 5E (2024) CoDzilla? Yeah Na Its CoDGFaW.

[EzekielRaiden]

In that specific instance forum goers reflected real life.

So they reflect real life when it's useful to you, and don't reflect real life when that would be useful to you.

I hope you can see why this argument looks like cherry-picking.

I would pick to play a game of 4E over 3.5bbevause I never got to play it.

While I am not surprised that you haven't played it, I genuinely am surprised to hear that you would give it a shot. That...is highly unexpected, given my experience of your prior posting history.

 

[Zardnaar]

So they reflect real life when it's useful to you, and don't reflect real life when that would be useful to you.

I hope you can see why this argument looks like cherry-picking.


While I am not surprised that you haven't played it, I genuinely am surprised to hear that you would give it a shot. That...is highly unexpected, given my experience of your prior posting history.

Forums dont have the power to sink an edition.

Social media might.

That old youtube video of WotC mocking 3E. First time a saw that it had 40k views. Last time 80k.

Thats less than a medium size D&D youtubers.

Mist online D&D things burn themselves out in a week or so.

It would have to be sustained, near universal, crossover into real life and be across multiple platforms (forums, facebook, youtube, reddit etc). Old D&D forums were an echo chamber, mod enforced blackout elsewhere. Sone peopke were genuinely shocked when 5E playtest was announced and with 1st packet (it wasnt a reversion to 3E).

4E DMed it to 7th, never got to play it as local scene basically died. Recruiting was kinda hard until Pathfinder blew up.

Around 2016 I noticed it became very easy to find players.