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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Juomari Veren" data-source="post: 8804805" data-attributes="member: 87428">Something to consider; The playerbase at 5e's launch was a ghost of what it was today. They repackaged the core rulebooks once in 2018 (to capitalize on those who followed Critical Role all the way through their first campaign and into the second), and I'd wager that a fair share of current players who hopped onto the hobby after 5e launched but before 2022 don't actually own their own core material (ignoring the ease of finding it all online one way or the other, most new players likely borrowed core materials from someone who was teaching them the game, or a game store, or some other reason). If their playerbase (using playtest numbers from D&D Next) has multiplied even tenfold from 2014 to 2022 (175k to 1.75 million; Of course it's much, much higher both ways), and at least one third of the new 90% of players feel compelled to buy the One D&D core set for themsleves, they'll more or less accomplish selling three times as many products.I'd daresay that digital tools be damned, One D&D's financial success is a foregone conclusion. With how many people I know went from never being interested in D&D to playing it regularly from my own high school alone (I could literally count the D&D players on one hand when I graduated, now they could probably fill an entire gymnasium with them plus the ones that hopped onto the hobby in the years before me), the game's pretty much guaranteed to be a success no matter what bow they wrap it up in and sell it to us with. Is One D&D a necessary rules change? In some ways, yes, and I welcome what I've seen so far give or take 10-15% of it. But there's no way that these new rules don't rake in the cash for at least one quarter of 2024's profits.Actually, his position was filled about two-three months before he moved out, as per the info on LinkedIn. All signs point to him training his replacement before he formally stepped down in any way, since there's an overlap that only cedes job title to the new guy because of the start date. Also highly unusual, but in a good way.</blockquote>

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