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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kzach" data-source="post: 5076748" data-attributes="member: 56189">By the time 3e rocked up, D&D was all but dead to me. I was a GURPS convert but couldn't get anyone else to play it. And the ones who wanted to play D&D were... well... let's just say they could do with some basic socialisation classes.Anyhoo, 3e most definitely got a lot of people back into the hobby, but I rarely saw new people to the game. Most of them were like me; people who had given up on 2e and were looking for something new.But ever since I started playing 4e games, I've experienced a lot of people new to the hobby. Now, maybe this is just an isolated experience, but it does seem they've pushed the word out a bit further than they did in 3e. And no doubt, 4e is riding on the coat-tails of 3e's push into the market as well.Regardless, upon reading the latest Ampersand and investigating the new starter kits, I have to say I'm quite excited for the future of the hobby. I know they did something similar in 3e, but it never grabbed my attention, and nobody I know ever picked it up either.This starter kit looks really flash and exciting and seems like a lot of thought and effort has gone behind it to make it a really fun, new experience for people entering the hobby. This is something I could easily see myself gifting to my nephew or recommending to others as a gift as well.It would be good to have some fresh blood into the hobby. Get all those old codgers off their lawns so they stop moping about 'the good old days'. I'm so over hearing, "I started with the box set, sonny!"</blockquote>

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