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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ShinHakkaider" data-source="post: 6228299" data-attributes="member: 9213">I know I'm not special. I also know that it's not a new phenomenon. Youre not talking to someone who started playing RPG's with 3rd Edition. I've been around at least since 82 so I know that the D&D faithful usually blindly follow the game from edition to edition. I WAS ONE OF THEM. I know that the game is going to sell. Because people are still going to blindly buy a D&D RPG as long as it has D&D on it. What I'm saying is that there will be fewer of those blind followers now that there are a great deal of other options than there were before. I'm saying that those who felt burned by the transition between 3x and 4x may have weaned themselves off of the WOTC teat and are happy playing in newer greener pastures. What I'm saying is where are these new people who are going to replace me coming from and more improtantly ARE THEY GOING TO STAY. Because I saw this same thing touted for 4E when it came out and at the beginning at the D&D meetup here in NYC it was TEEMING with new 4E players. Several months later? it was down to about 2-3 tables from 7-8. By the time I started running my Pathfinder game it had dropped even more. Which brings us to probably why we're even talking about 5E to begin with. So again where are these new people coming from and if the goal is to draw back older lapsed players who have been playing OSR versions of 1E and 2E what does 5E offer them OTHER than the fact that they get to play a game with the D&D stamp on it? Because that stamp doesn't mean as much as it used to because, well...CHOICES.What I find really funny about you is that youre saying basically what a bunch of the 4E people were saying on this very forum when 4E came out. Going on about how the hobby/D&D doesn't need people like me because we'll be replaced by new people wanting to play the game. So we left and played other games. And here you are with 5E.</blockquote>

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