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<blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 8032554" data-attributes="member: 2525">Yes, very very much so. I used to have time in my life to learn a new system, and now I do not. If it's a choice between spending time with a system I already know, and one I do not know, I am going to choose the system I already know almost every time. With the only exception being a topic which I otherwise really quite like. So for example if an official Harry Potter RPG came out with strong financial backing from a known bigger company (so I knew it would have support for many years to come from good known RPG designers) and it had a new system, that's the only time I might check it out. If it's just &quot;OK that sounds interesting but the setting is also new&quot; then I won't likely buy it these days.Now at a convention? I will try anything, if it's with players I want to game with or a GM I want to game with. But that's a one time thing. I don't typically end up buying the game in those instances though.And I think that goes the same for almost everyone I game with these days, in multiple different groups.I mean, Iron Kingdoms tried to do this, with plenty of financial backing (to begin with) and good names and goodwill in the marketplace and years of effort, and even they just finally concluded it wasn't going to work and they needed to support 5e.&nbsp; I get that you want something which fits how you prefer to work, but unless it's just for you or it's art for arts sake, isn't fitting how others like to play more important than fitting how you like to work if sales is the goal?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mistwell, post: 8032554, member: 2525"] Yes, very very much so. I used to have time in my life to learn a new system, and now I do not. If it's a choice between spending time with a system I already know, and one I do not know, I am going to choose the system I already know almost every time. With the only exception being a topic which I otherwise really quite like. So for example if an official Harry Potter RPG came out with strong financial backing from a known bigger company (so I knew it would have support for many years to come from good known RPG designers) and it had a new system, that's the only time I might check it out. If it's just "OK that sounds interesting but the setting is also new" then I won't likely buy it these days. Now at a convention? I will try anything, if it's with players I want to game with or a GM I want to game with. But that's a one time thing. I don't typically end up buying the game in those instances though. And I think that goes the same for almost everyone I game with these days, in multiple different groups. I mean, Iron Kingdoms tried to do this, with plenty of financial backing (to begin with) and good names and goodwill in the marketplace and years of effort, and even they just finally concluded it wasn't going to work and they needed to support 5e. I get that you want something which fits how you prefer to work, but unless it's just for you or it's art for arts sake, isn't fitting how others like to play more important than fitting how you like to work if sales is the goal? [/QUOTE]

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