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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9237528" data-attributes="member: 7006">I think this is spot on.  The OSR is a small pond, with a small amount of ducks that swim in it and are interested in it.  So all those ducks can hang there and talk there and produce there and learn from each other there as much as they want and have no worries or distractions of anything that is outside of that OSR pond.But right now Dungeons & Dragons 5E is Lake Superior by comparison.  It is so huge that (general) you can't even see the far side of it, let alone every single duck that is swimming in it.  And even if (general) you find those few ducks you like... they are surrounded by thousands of other ducks all quacking about their own 5E stuff and you'll never be able to just focus on those few you want.Like if anyone actually wants to find 5E Revival-like places to talk seriously with other people who want to focus on it... places like here at E.N. World in the general Dungeons & Dragons thread sure as heck ain't the place to do it.  Cause any thread they make here there is going to be at minimum 6 to 10 other posters who show up to tell them why they're wrong.  Or people wanting to use DMs Guild as their publishing location for their Revival material... that's not going to work to their satisfaction, because it'll just get lost amongst the thousands of other products that are made for 5E-- most of which are done with the expressed purpose of making money and not for some sort of creative epiphany kind of thing.So any 5E Revival thing has to go find some little obscure corner of the internet and lock themselves off away from everyone else who plays 5E-- put up that red velvet rope and only allow those in who actually think more "esoteric" DIY 5E design is needed or cool or better or whatever.  Because if they don't... all their stuff is going to just get swallowed up and lost in the shuffle like everything else 5E related, and the people involved will get surrounded by the thousands of other 5E enthusiasts who just don't care about the Revival like they do.It can maybe work... it just can't work in places like this.</blockquote>

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