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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 8750881" data-attributes="member: 85555"><p>I don't know about the sales numbers but what he says largely matches my experience, which is the player base has shrunk or fragmented around editions. I don't it is always the case. 3E, with its back to the dungeon mindset, seemed to bring back a lot of people who had written off D&D as a dead brand (not sure if people remember the late 90s but it was pretty grim). Definitely remember it feeling like the 2E era, which I really liked, saw a shrinking base of players. I don't think it is very deniable that 4E split the player base and that allowed Pathfinder to grab a huge chunk of the D&D audience. The whole point of 5E was to bring people back together. I don't play 5E, like the OP, but it does seem they achieved that. I think the wild card here is D&D is exeperiencing very unprecedented popularity right now, and that might mean they don't have to worry as much. On the other hand, an edition break could be the sort of thing that disrupts popularity if its very divisive among current fans (I can't say whether One D&D would be or not as I am not familiar enough with 5E, so I can't really gauge all the proposed changes I have seen).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 8750881, member: 85555"] I don't know about the sales numbers but what he says largely matches my experience, which is the player base has shrunk or fragmented around editions. I don't it is always the case. 3E, with its back to the dungeon mindset, seemed to bring back a lot of people who had written off D&D as a dead brand (not sure if people remember the late 90s but it was pretty grim). Definitely remember it feeling like the 2E era, which I really liked, saw a shrinking base of players. I don't think it is very deniable that 4E split the player base and that allowed Pathfinder to grab a huge chunk of the D&D audience. The whole point of 5E was to bring people back together. I don't play 5E, like the OP, but it does seem they achieved that. I think the wild card here is D&D is exeperiencing very unprecedented popularity right now, and that might mean they don't have to worry as much. On the other hand, an edition break could be the sort of thing that disrupts popularity if its very divisive among current fans (I can't say whether One D&D would be or not as I am not familiar enough with 5E, so I can't really gauge all the proposed changes I have seen). [/QUOTE]
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