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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Trickster Spirit" data-source="post: 6554976" data-attributes="member: 6701829">I'm not saying it won't be the case in the future, but at present there are no Pathfinder players who have never heard of D&D. There might be plenty of players who have only ever played Pathfinder and not D&D (I myself was one of them until 5E came out), but even the casual players know about D&D and the relationship between it and the game they are playing. So whether Pathfinder or D&D is on top of the RPG charts in 2016 or 2017 is immaterial to whether a movie would be successful or not.You asked me for reasons why they bothered with coming out with 5E at all, and I listed some, but I still think they could shut down the RPG division tomorrow and still make a successful D&D movie with mainstream appeal, just because it'll be a high-budget CGI spectacular with a dragon fight (and also wizards blasting down mooks with laser beams AND fighters mowing down armies of hobgoblins AND mindflayers eating the brain of the likable sidekick an hour into the movie AND hungry vampires being turned by the cleric of Pelor who had just regained his faith after having lost long ago after all the terrible things he's seen AND a sexy succubus trying to find redemption for her damned nature by chastely exploring the multiverse as a force for good AND a monk who knows kung fu AND flumphs no wait ESPECIALLY flumphs, make the whole damn movie about the flumphs). Pick any one of those threads and you could make a blockbuster about it, and there are more than five editions worth of lapsed D&D players that will fill seats and invite their friends and family along for the ride. Brand evangelists aren't just folks who will try and convert you into playing the current edition of the game - they're everyone who has positive associations with the name "Dungeons and Dragons" and can be expected to recommend the movie to their friends. By that definition, most Pathfinder players are D&D brand evangelists, inasmuch as they like D&D style fantasy and will take their kids / parents / friends / gaming groups to the theater with them. Same goes for 4E players, and players of every other D&D edition going back all the way to OD&D.</blockquote>

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