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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 3065851" data-attributes="member: 158">Two things to keep in mind: 3E also brought a lot of people who USED to play D&amp;D, who had been not playing since the late 1980's, to return to the ranks of active RPG gamers. (The discussions on this have been fairly common over the last 5 years). A lot of these players enjoyed AD&amp;D, but then wanted something with a little more built-in variety mechanically speaking, so moved on to Warhammer, GURPS, Rolemaster, etc. etc. etc. When 3E hit, many of these came back, and some even moved RIGHT back into AD&amp;D or other earlier versions of the Game (I believe poster J-Dawg fits this bill, and he plays all sorts of d20 games now, and another example is a gent by the moniker of WSmith who now frequents Dragonsfoot and plays Basic (BECM) D&amp;D, to name some clear-to-mind examples.Also, as you mention a LOT of newer gamers came through games like Magic the Gathering, and through Computer RPG's like Baldur's Gate and Everquest. One thing that Wulf Ratbane (fellow poster) made me realize through a 4th Edition speculation thread about two months back, was that &quot;a gamer is a gamer is a gamer,&quot; no matter your personal poison of choice, because every new tabletop gamer is a convert to other tabletop games, including possibly 3rd edition D&amp;D, Castles and Crusades, and even AD&amp;D. In my own gaming group, 2 current players came to tabletop gaming by way of (respectively) Magic the Gathering and Computer RPG's. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> That's two people who WEREN'T RPG gaming five years ago.Some of those will stay with 3E, or 4E, or whatever comes down the pike; others will want a different experience, and there are your AD&amp;D convert potentials, right there. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Henry, post: 3065851, member: 158"] Two things to keep in mind: 3E also brought a lot of people who USED to play D&D, who had been not playing since the late 1980's, to return to the ranks of active RPG gamers. (The discussions on this have been fairly common over the last 5 years). A lot of these players enjoyed AD&D, but then wanted something with a little more built-in variety mechanically speaking, so moved on to Warhammer, GURPS, Rolemaster, etc. etc. etc. When 3E hit, many of these came back, and some even moved RIGHT back into AD&D or other earlier versions of the Game (I believe poster J-Dawg fits this bill, and he plays all sorts of d20 games now, and another example is a gent by the moniker of WSmith who now frequents Dragonsfoot and plays Basic (BECM) D&D, to name some clear-to-mind examples. Also, as you mention a LOT of newer gamers came through games like Magic the Gathering, and through Computer RPG's like Baldur's Gate and Everquest. One thing that Wulf Ratbane (fellow poster) made me realize through a 4th Edition speculation thread about two months back, was that "a gamer is a gamer is a gamer," no matter your personal poison of choice, because every new tabletop gamer is a convert to other tabletop games, including possibly 3rd edition D&D, Castles and Crusades, and even AD&D. In my own gaming group, 2 current players came to tabletop gaming by way of (respectively) Magic the Gathering and Computer RPG's. :) That's two people who WEREN'T RPG gaming five years ago. Some of those will stay with 3E, or 4E, or whatever comes down the pike; others will want a different experience, and there are your AD&D convert potentials, right there. ;) [/QUOTE]

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