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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GMforPowergamers" data-source="post: 8713965" data-attributes="member: 67338">Yes... but NO, but kinda, but kinda not. I know that answer sucks but that is the TLDR... but for more indepthI think the idea of D&D is something that has and most likely will always have a major potential to spread through out the young adult segment.  If one day in 1995 everything that 5e had going 2e would have gotten a big boost... but, and this is a big butIf everything that went right for 5e went right the same time but we still had 2e mechanics I don't think it would have taken off as well (I do still think that it would have been a boom... just not a lasting one as powerful as we have now. My theory is that any WotC edition would do better then any TSR edition but (and I am biased) I think 4e would have been better yet, and best would be if the basic ideas and frame work of 4e was brought forward and made into a new better math better modern ideas 5e.  But what we have now a GREAT edition and I think it is still a great help...I think of it like having a friend get you a blind date, or a job interview... the friend can put in a good word but you still need to make a good first impression, and once you get past that you still need to work to keep things going. Stranger things, Big Bang, Critical Role (and other things) was a friend putting in a good word for you and setting up a meeting... but the game itself still needs to keep selling itself, and so 5e DID and IS doing a part of that.</blockquote>

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