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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9236788" data-attributes="member: 7006">The entire reason why Dungeons &amp; Dragons 5E has been in a &quot;Golden Age&quot; is because it has expanded itself beyond its foundational playerbase with millions of players who are completely unconcerned with all the crap that gets us EN Worlders all bent out of shape-- they don't care or know how Hasbro is earning money from their game, do not care about the Open Gaming License (and probably wouldn't even know what 'OGL' stood for if you asked them), and wouldn't be able to define, explain or identify anything related to the so-called 'OSR movement'.The people who actually care about any of those things are precisely the people who would have been playing D&amp;D 5E this entire time (or at least been knowledgeable of it) regardless of any Critical Role / Actual Play / Stranger Things / Big Bang Theory / pop culture signposting that has occurred to MAKE this era a so-called &quot;Golden Age&quot;.&nbsp; And on top of that... the people who might bemoan the idea of this &quot;Golden Age&quot; ending are the exact people for whom their participation did not trigger it.&nbsp; They are complaining about something ending that they didn't actually have a hand in.We EN Worlders did not create this Golden Age of TTRPGs.&nbsp; We were already going to be here regardless.&nbsp; The Golden Age occurred in spite of us.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 9236788, member: 7006"] The entire reason why Dungeons & Dragons 5E has been in a "Golden Age" is because it has expanded itself beyond its foundational playerbase with millions of players who are completely unconcerned with all the crap that gets us EN Worlders all bent out of shape-- they don't care or know how Hasbro is earning money from their game, do not care about the Open Gaming License (and probably wouldn't even know what 'OGL' stood for if you asked them), and wouldn't be able to define, explain or identify anything related to the so-called 'OSR movement'. The people who actually care about any of those things are precisely the people who would have been playing D&D 5E this entire time (or at least been knowledgeable of it) [I]regardless[/I] of any Critical Role / Actual Play / Stranger Things / Big Bang Theory / pop culture signposting that has occurred to MAKE this era a so-called "Golden Age". And on top of that... the people who might bemoan the idea of this "Golden Age" ending are the exact people for whom their participation [I]did not trigger it[/I]. They are complaining about something ending that they didn't actually have a hand in. We EN Worlders did not create this Golden Age of TTRPGs. We were already going to be here regardless. The Golden Age occurred in spite of us. [/QUOTE]

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