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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4166551" data-attributes="member: 19675">You said it yourself- lots of cheap books.&nbsp; Add a very shallow learning curve and its an easy sell.And my point isnt that the OGL games will whup on 4Ed.&nbsp; Its that the existence of well-written and supported OGL games in addition to the existence of a very popular game called 3.5 are just another reason not to try 4Ed.&nbsp; The market is flooded with good options.Furthermore, the buying public is more aware of those choices than ever before- those substitutes are available in mainstream bookstores like Barnes &amp; Noble or Borders, and online at the Amazonsuperultramegawebstore (Bow to them!).&nbsp; Heck, a search for &quot;role playing game&quot; on B&amp;N didn't even turn up D&amp;D as the first choice.Is &quot;D&amp;D&quot; still the name the mundanes use as the generic term for the hobby?&nbsp; Sure.&nbsp; But anyone who has ever purchased a game supplement knows there is more than one out there- including those non-players who buy supps as gifts.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 4166551, member: 19675"] You said it yourself- lots of cheap books. Add a very shallow learning curve and its an easy sell. And my point isnt that the OGL games will whup on 4Ed. Its that the existence of well-written and supported OGL games [i]in addition to[/i] the existence of a very popular game called 3.5 are just another reason not to try 4Ed. The market is flooded with good options. Furthermore, the buying public is more aware of those choices than ever before- those substitutes are available in mainstream bookstores like Barnes & Noble or Borders, and online at the Amazonsuperultramegawebstore (Bow to them!). Heck, a search for "role playing game" on B&N didn't even turn up D&D as the first choice. Is "D&D" still the name the mundanes use as the generic term for the hobby? Sure. But anyone who has ever purchased a game supplement knows there is more than one out there- including those non-players who buy supps as gifts. [/QUOTE]

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