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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5252772" data-attributes="member: 22779">Yes, it is conjecture.  I don't have exact numbers.  I do however, entirely reject the idea that the number of people currently playing 1e is even remotely close to the number of people playing either 3e or 4e.  We're talking an order of magnitude difference here.Look, OSRIC, when it came out, had fantastic downloads.  About 10 k according to its writer.  Ten... thousand.  That's it.  I'm sure there have been more since, since that was a few years ago.  But, still, if there were anything close to the couple of million current 3e or 4e gamers, you'd think that the first 1e product in twenty some years would gain a few more than a handful of thousand free downloads.Which, in turn, means that 1e was not able to keep its audience.  Because once upon a time, 1e DID have a million players (at least sales would indicate that - 1 million copies of Keep on the Borderland had to go somewhere).  So, no, it could not keep its audience.  It lost its audience over the years.Heck, it lost half its audience when 2e came out.In the end, I reject both of your conjectures - that there are even remotely close to similar numbers of current players, and, that from 1980 to now, there has been no drop in the number of 0e or 1e gamers.</blockquote>