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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Emberashh" data-source="post: 8972694" data-attributes="member: 7040941">I think this has more to do with Actual Plays rising in popularity than with anything the game did. Part of the problem with TTRPGs in general is that the nature of these games made how they play relatively obscured. Unless you got roped into a group by an already "in" person, prior to Actual Plays you'd have to go out of your way to find examples of how the game plays, and often that meant you'd effectively have to go in blind with the first group you found, or you had to convince your own friends to go in blind with you, playing the game without any prior reference. But, not long after 5e cane along, things like Critical Role came in, got absurdly popular and stayed absurdly popular on a site primarily directed towards video gamers, and nowadays you can find all kinds of lets place on the internet in different formats, most of whom end up playing the same game the early successful streams were. I think if groups like Critical Role played literally anything else (Like Pathfinder if they decided to stick with it), then 5e wouldn't have ever enjoyed the same level of popularity it has.</blockquote>