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<blockquote data-quote="scadgrad" data-source="post: 5846761" data-attributes="member: 766">So much of the commentary here fails to address the MASSIVE marketing efforts that WizBro was able to aim at their target market for 3.X as compared to what a steadily-dying TSR in all its incompetence was managing during the dark days of the 90s. Additionally, the success of 3.X was clearly aided by the OGL &amp; SRD ideas which created a tremendous wave of public interest in its own right which overwhelmed nearly every other RPG. The former King of RPG sales White Wolf, responded by shooting itself in the foot (&quot;I guess we better nuke our setting and split our market via a new edition too&quot;) only to be driven into insolvency (now owned by CCP of EVE Online fame). Let us also not forget or fail to enter into the discourse, the staggering success of MtG which, clearly sucked up a lot of the air in the old Fantasy-based hobby game room.What I'm trying to say here is that, yes, 3.0 brought a lot of folks back into the Fantasy RPG fold, but it's a mistake to say this was only because of &quot;the vast improvements&quot; foisted upon us by Cook, Williams and Tweet.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="scadgrad, post: 5846761, member: 766"] So much of the commentary here fails to address the MASSIVE marketing efforts that WizBro was able to aim at their target market for 3.X as compared to what a steadily-dying TSR in all its incompetence was managing during the dark days of the 90s. Additionally, the success of 3.X was clearly aided by the OGL & SRD ideas which created a tremendous wave of public interest in its own right which overwhelmed nearly every other RPG. The former King of RPG sales White Wolf, responded by shooting itself in the foot ("I guess we better nuke our setting and split our market via a new edition too") only to be driven into insolvency (now owned by CCP of EVE Online fame). Let us also not forget or fail to enter into the discourse, the staggering success of MtG which, clearly sucked up a lot of the air in the old Fantasy-based hobby game room. What I'm trying to say here is that, yes, 3.0 brought a lot of folks back into the Fantasy RPG fold, but it's a mistake to say this was[B][I] only[/I][/B] because of "the vast improvements" foisted upon us by Cook, Williams and Tweet. [/QUOTE]

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