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<blockquote data-quote="Monkey Boy" data-source="post: 5590846" data-attributes="member: 46422"><p>I think I am in the target market. I've run out of enthusiasm for 3.x and never could get into 4e. I have been harkening back to my childhood and rediscovered simpler games and have delved into the OSR blogosphere. I've been revisiting the roots of the hobby and brushing up on my appendix N reading. Vance is proving difficult to go through by the Elric stories are ace. Goodman is playing the nostalgia card and in my case it's working. DCC harkens back to all that was good and wonderous about the hobby when I started. This comes through both in the die as well as the art homage. It's taking the original game and making it cool again. Or at least I hope so. I find out in a few weeks when I rustle up a group for a play test.&nbsp; &nbsp; So speaking generally I guess Goodman is after the group who grew up gaming in the 80's and 90's, made the leap to 3.0 and then became disillusioned as 4e launched. Since then this pool of gamers have either stuck it out with 3.x, drifted to the OSR or headed to Pathfinder.&nbsp;&nbsp; I don't think he is targeting 4e gamers at all - as it seems to take a swipe at balanced games while celebrating it's own swinginess - and so I don't think you are the target Merric. I assume there are enough of the other group to make publishing this game worth his while.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Monkey Boy, post: 5590846, member: 46422"] I think I am in the target market. I've run out of enthusiasm for 3.x and never could get into 4e. I have been harkening back to my childhood and rediscovered simpler games and have delved into the OSR blogosphere. I've been revisiting the roots of the hobby and brushing up on my appendix N reading. Vance is proving difficult to go through by the Elric stories are ace. Goodman is playing the nostalgia card and in my case it's working. DCC harkens back to all that was good and wonderous about the hobby when I started. This comes through both in the die as well as the art homage. It's taking the original game and making it cool again. Or at least I hope so. I find out in a few weeks when I rustle up a group for a play test. So speaking generally I guess Goodman is after the group who grew up gaming in the 80's and 90's, made the leap to 3.0 and then became disillusioned as 4e launched. Since then this pool of gamers have either stuck it out with 3.x, drifted to the OSR or headed to Pathfinder. I don't think he is targeting 4e gamers at all - as it seems to take a swipe at balanced games while celebrating it's own swinginess - and so I don't think you are the target Merric. I assume there are enough of the other group to make publishing this game worth his while. [/QUOTE]

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