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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 9450325" data-attributes="member: 6801228">Right, so one big factor it is missing is a 6e that people hate and decide to flock to a game that is basically identical to 5e. Except, also, unlike Pathfinder all of the 5e equivalents already exist. 4e was released in 2008 and PAthfinder was released in 2009. That means that, people had a chance to look at 4e, decide they didn't like 4e, and then within that time span someone offered SOMETHING NEW that was like the old thing they had liked. Right now what would happen is that people have 5e, they look at 6e and decide they don't like it... so they decide to go back and buy an existing product that they didn't buy before? IF someone looked at Tales of the Valiant already and decided that they don't want it, then not wanting 6e isn't automatically going to make them go &quot;oh, now I want Tales of the Valiant because it has new products&quot;. Remember, people stuck with 2e as it existed, they didn't flock to other games that were adjacent. And despite there being quite a few d20 system games similar to 3.5, it was Pathfinder which was a known and respected PARTNER of WoTC that was able to make a change by releasing a NEW product, not supporting an old product. Not saying that it is impossible for some of the other 5e compatible systems to get some small bump, but most of them have been around long enough that they aren't going to see a massive swell, because most people who want them... already got them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 9450325, member: 6801228"] Right, so one big factor it is missing is a 6e that people hate and decide to flock to a game that is basically identical to 5e. Except, also, unlike Pathfinder all of the 5e equivalents already exist. 4e was released in 2008 and PAthfinder was released in 2009. That means that, people had a chance to look at 4e, decide they didn't like 4e, and then within that time span someone offered SOMETHING NEW that was like the old thing they had liked. Right now what would happen is that people have 5e, they look at 6e and decide they don't like it... so they decide to go back and buy an existing product that they didn't buy before? IF someone looked at Tales of the Valiant already and decided that they don't want it, then not wanting 6e isn't automatically going to make them go "oh, now I want Tales of the Valiant because it has new products". Remember, people stuck with 2e as it existed, they didn't flock to other games that were adjacent. And despite there being quite a few d20 system games similar to 3.5, it was Pathfinder which was a known and respected PARTNER of WoTC that was able to make a change by releasing a NEW product, not supporting an old product. Not saying that it is impossible for some of the other 5e compatible systems to get some small bump, but most of them have been around long enough that they aren't going to see a massive swell, because most people who want them... already got them. [/QUOTE]

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