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<blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 5431892" data-attributes="member: 7883">I tend to agree here.&nbsp; I haven't been playing lately, but I've been checking out a lot of the Pathfinder stuff, and I really like what's been coming out.&nbsp; Particularly, as Paizo comes out with more &quot;advanced&quot; books beyond the core release, the manners in which they're starting to diverge are really interesting.I can say that I haven't tried playing online......but honestly, if I'm going to play a game online, it's going to be an MMORPG or my XBox or something....not sitting around talking in a chat session playing a tabletop RPG.&nbsp; And I say that being someone who played D&amp;D for about 20 years.&nbsp; Nothing really compares to getting around a table with some friends to play.This having been said, I'm noticing a lot of threads lately about the &quot;fate&quot; of D&amp;D.&nbsp; I'm not sure if I've missed something, but have there been announcements that it's going under, or is in trouble or something?&nbsp; I only count about 5 actual products on the release schedule for this year......that seems like what happened right before TSR folded and was acquired by Wizards..I seem to remember that year there were very few products.....or am I thinking of the year before 3E came out?I never made the changeover myself.&nbsp; 4E just didn't capture me, for whatever reason.&nbsp; But when I look at the message boards here at EN World, at pretty much any time of day, there are like 10 times as many people looking at the 4E forums as there are looking at the Pathfinder forums....though if you tally up all the 3E related forums (including Pathfinder), it seems more like 50/50.&nbsp; I don't think that's a very scientific way of looking at it though <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=":)" />&nbsp; I'm not saying any of that to make a value statement.&nbsp; People should play what they enjoy...really, arguing about which is better is pointless.Hopefully they wouldn't go to a subscription based model where everything is played online.I wonder though, if this is partly bad timing.....4E came out right at the start of the recession.....I know I was laid off like a month after 4E came out, so I was too busy looking for work to play, and couldn't justify spending money on books for a new system, and I'm curious about how many other players/DM's ended up in a similar situation.&nbsp; I was the DM of our group, so it pretty much imploded when I no longer had time to play.Banshee</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Banshee16, post: 5431892, member: 7883"] I tend to agree here. I haven't been playing lately, but I've been checking out a lot of the Pathfinder stuff, and I really like what's been coming out. Particularly, as Paizo comes out with more "advanced" books beyond the core release, the manners in which they're starting to diverge are really interesting. I can say that I haven't tried playing online......but honestly, if I'm going to play a game online, it's going to be an MMORPG or my XBox or something....not sitting around talking in a chat session playing a tabletop RPG. And I say that being someone who played D&D for about 20 years. Nothing really compares to getting around a table with some friends to play. This having been said, I'm noticing a lot of threads lately about the "fate" of D&D. I'm not sure if I've missed something, but have there been announcements that it's going under, or is in trouble or something? I only count about 5 actual products on the release schedule for this year......that seems like what happened right before TSR folded and was acquired by Wizards..I seem to remember that year there were very few products.....or am I thinking of the year before 3E came out? I never made the changeover myself. 4E just didn't capture me, for whatever reason. But when I look at the message boards here at EN World, at pretty much any time of day, there are like 10 times as many people looking at the 4E forums as there are looking at the Pathfinder forums....though if you tally up all the 3E related forums (including Pathfinder), it seems more like 50/50. I don't think that's a very scientific way of looking at it though :) I'm not saying any of that to make a value statement. People should play what they enjoy...really, arguing about which is better is pointless. Hopefully they wouldn't go to a subscription based model where everything is played online. I wonder though, if this is partly bad timing.....4E came out right at the start of the recession.....I know I was laid off like a month after 4E came out, so I was too busy looking for work to play, and couldn't justify spending money on books for a new system, and I'm curious about how many other players/DM's ended up in a similar situation. I was the DM of our group, so it pretty much imploded when I no longer had time to play. Banshee [/QUOTE]

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