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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 8496998" data-attributes="member: 85555"><p>I think what I am expressing is a very common impression people had at the time. I can only give my perspective. I can't tell you it is 100% the case across the board. When Magic first came out, a lot of the people in our local groups switched to magic. Some did both. But we were definitely losing players to magic. Now I think those markets have sorted themselves out. But at the time, I think a lot of people who played D&D and other RPGs, were potential magic players and didn't know it, and were getting a lot of what they would eventually get from magic, by playing D&D. Once magic got big, a lot of them seemed satisfied playing magic alone. That is fine, they were doing what they wanted to do and what they enjoyed. But from our perspective the hobby felt quite imperiled. Keep in mind this is also around the time TSR was going under, and on the heels of White Wolf give D&D serious competition. So if you played D&D (and we actually played a lot of different games but D&D was the default), things seemed extremely uncertain. This is why when WOTC bought D&D, a lot of people thought it was the end (the idea that the people who made magic, were now in charge of D&D made us very concerned). For that reason, it took me a while to warm up to 3E when it first came out. I eventually loved it. But I was a 2E die-hard for a while because my sense was they were going to 'magic the gathering' D&D.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 8496998, member: 85555"] I think what I am expressing is a very common impression people had at the time. I can only give my perspective. I can't tell you it is 100% the case across the board. When Magic first came out, a lot of the people in our local groups switched to magic. Some did both. But we were definitely losing players to magic. Now I think those markets have sorted themselves out. But at the time, I think a lot of people who played D&D and other RPGs, were potential magic players and didn't know it, and were getting a lot of what they would eventually get from magic, by playing D&D. Once magic got big, a lot of them seemed satisfied playing magic alone. That is fine, they were doing what they wanted to do and what they enjoyed. But from our perspective the hobby felt quite imperiled. Keep in mind this is also around the time TSR was going under, and on the heels of White Wolf give D&D serious competition. So if you played D&D (and we actually played a lot of different games but D&D was the default), things seemed extremely uncertain. This is why when WOTC bought D&D, a lot of people thought it was the end (the idea that the people who made magic, were now in charge of D&D made us very concerned). For that reason, it took me a while to warm up to 3E when it first came out. I eventually loved it. But I was a 2E die-hard for a while because my sense was they were going to 'magic the gathering' D&D. [/QUOTE]
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