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<blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 9200938" data-attributes="member: 86653">It's kind of asking the wrong question. The amount of effort is greater than zero. That is clearly enough to stop most people from learning a new system. It's the sunk cost fallacy, really. They put this much time, energy, effort, etc into learning this system...so why do that all over again with a different system. Especially when you can so easily find a 5E hack that does whatever genre or style you want.You can see evidence of this in all the hacks people make turning D&amp;D 5E into various other genres and styles of play. It's easier for a designer or a referee to hack the game system, create all new races, classes, spells, items, etc for 5E and hand that to players and get them to play that than it is to get most players to try something that's not 5E.You also have a large group of gamers who flat out refuse to trust the GM to know the rules and must themselves read, study, and memorize the rules of a game before they'll play. The idea of &quot;trust the GM to explain things as you go&quot; is anathema to them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="overgeeked, post: 9200938, member: 86653"] It's kind of asking the wrong question. The amount of effort is greater than zero. That is clearly enough to stop most people from learning a new system. It's the sunk cost fallacy, really. They put this much time, energy, effort, etc into learning this system...so why do that all over again with a different system. Especially when you can so easily find a 5E hack that does whatever genre or style you want. You can see evidence of this in all the hacks people make turning D&D 5E into various other genres and styles of play. It's easier for a designer or a referee to hack the game system, create all new races, classes, spells, items, etc for 5E and hand that to players and get them to play that than it is to get most players to try something that's not 5E. You also have a large group of gamers who flat out refuse to trust the GM to know the rules and must themselves read, study, and memorize the rules of a game before they'll play. The idea of "trust the GM to explain things as you go" is anathema to them. [/QUOTE]

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