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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SlyFlourish" data-source="post: 9450515" data-attributes="member: 54840">I'd argue the exact same thing happened to Kobold Press who has risen quite well over the 5e time and now has their own flavor of 5e to build off of for as long as they choose. They're not as big as Paizo, obviously, but they seem to be doing fine.I absolutely believe people will stick to 5e if WOTC goes to a 6e (which isn't a forgone conclusion. Who knows what they're going to do hereon out). I know this because people stuck to older versions of D&D. The OSR seems to be doing great. Shadowdark made a million and a half dollars and has a strong community of people who play. Other old-school variants like Knave and Cairn and Dolmenwood did great as well. Dragonbane, an update to a Swedish version of D&D from the 80s, is an awesome and popular RPG.I suspect when you say "people" that you mean "most people" or something like that – a number we can never actually know. No doubt D&D will likely remain most popular but who cares? Why does that matter? We don't need to convince the world to play whatever RPG we want to play. We only need to convince four to six of our friends.And if we want to help break the hold that D&D has on the hobby, maybe we spend more time talking to people about all the other games out there – not to take D&D down (I love D&D) but to show how wide the hobby can be.There are so many factors that go into keeping a business afloat that what WOTC decides to do with a 6e in some number of years doesn't even come into it. Now we're speculating about complete fantasy lands. None of us have any idea what the next five years hold for the hobby. I bet Kobold Press, EN World publishing, Free League, Arcane Library, MCDM, and others aren't worried about that right now. They're busy making awesome games.4e was far more fragile than 5e is. 4e had no SRD. It had no open license. There's no alternative compatible version of 4e. But MCDM made almost five million dollars building a new RPG that definitely has inspiration from 4e. 13th Age is an incredible RPG built by the lead designer of 4e and I much prefer it. They have a new version coming out next year I think.I don't think any of us need to worry about what a 6e will do, if there is one. I think we have plenty of things we can do right now to run awesome games for our friends and help expand the whole RPG hobby to everyone else to enjoy it.That's my charge, anyway.</blockquote>

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