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Message: <blockquote data-quote="prosfilaes" data-source="post: 6689174" data-attributes="member: 40166">There are noticeable third parties making works for 5E, more than 4E as far as I can tell.I think you should look at the people running the games, more than the players. Maybe it's different online, with more flexibility; I don't know, nor do I know how many people are playing that way. But tabletop, I think there's a lot of players who will play what's being run, especially between Pathfinder and D&D 5. It's the DMs who define more what's being run; I suspect the Encounters / Pathfinder Society people also make a huge impact on what players are playing. In a region of 100,000 Pathfinder/D&D players, I suspect the handful of people who spend all the volunteer time to guarantee a good Encounters / Pathfinder Society experience make a huge difference. And they're the people who kickstarted every RPG book to come to Kickstarter.That is, I believe the people who do buy 3PP have a disproportionate impact on what is being run. Also, the same thing that lets players drift back and forth between D&D 5 and Pathfinder also means that even if the numbers aren't quite right, 5E has huge volumes of ongoing 3PP support, i.e. everything published for AKCS, Pathfinder, Labyrinth Lords, DCC, Castles & Campaigns, etc. can be converted with more or less elbow grease to 5E. The effect of the OGL on the first D&D system to be OGLed and prior to the release of all the old D&D books on PDF is going to be a lot different then it would be on 5E with practically the whole back catalog of the RPG industry, including that 3.0 glut and fresh Pathfinder stuff, available.What are the numbers that let you say that?That's a lot like saying that farmer's markets don't register as a blip on the vast majority of shoppers, because each individual farmer's market does a tiny bit of business compared to Wal-Mart. I'm sure the 3PP adventures I've run don't register as a blip on anyone's registers, but what I found useful as a DM is that I had a wide variety of adventures to dig through to find one that fit my needs.</blockquote>

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