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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RFisher" data-source="post: 4517011" data-attributes="member: 3608">This is interesting to me because in 28 years of gaming, this has never been my experience. There has never been a single or even primary DM in my groups. At least half the group regularly takes a turn at it. New players are recruited by everyone, and I’d say those players who seldom DM tend to be more zealous evangelists.Have you tested subsets of character creation?All the information (though it is hard to get anything much hard and credible information) I’ve seen says that D&D and AD&D synergized rather than fragmented or competed. A good many AD&D players came to the hobby through a Basic Set. AD&D players bought and used D&D products. D&D players bought and used AD&D products. D&D often did better in foreign markets for various reasons.D&D didn’t get dropped until TSR was already run irreversibly into the ground. And I’d argue that the equivalent of the Basic Set that they had at that point had already lost too many of the good features of the Basic Sets.Sure.But some of us remember when we were new players. Some of us do often enough work with new players whom we’re trying to introduce to the hobby. Some of us are always on the look-out for something approaching the old Basic Sets to buy as gifts for our nieces and nephews who live too far away for us to personally mentor.</blockquote>