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<blockquote data-quote="hejtmane" data-source="post: 7379833" data-attributes="member: 6799371"><p>I think this is the biggest reason and why I think that it has had a multiple effect; I grew up playing D&D and 1e like 99% of my young years and a little of 2e in college but most was still 1e. </p><p></p><p>Fast forward dad sitting there and young teen son finds old 1e Unearth arcana book he has on shelf starts asking question he thinks it cools and wants to learn how to play and drags in his friends. Dad has to research because all he has is one 1e book he manages to get a hold of a 3.5 book researching realizes how crazy stupid the rules are and 4e looked more like an online mmo (just the way it felt to me from what I saw never played) but 5e is coming out soon so they play a 3.5 game first because he has the 3.5 phb as a stop gap and runs it with the more know 1e rule he remembers and preorders 5e starter kit waiting to see how that will look. Gets 5e starter kits after reading the 3.5 hand back and the what 5e going to look like easy decision 5e looks and feels a little more like 1e but without some of the things I hated about 1e (not everything was hunky dory in 1e).</p><p></p><p>Son's group gets dm by his dad, which leads to Son and friends creating a Highs school club being created and they run that groupp. The group grows big enough hey had to split into two separate campaigns. Then he also starts a group at his church. So us older guys that played back in the day came back with 5e and our kids. Who then introduced it to their friends and now have played it the last 4 years are venturing out on their own taking 5e with them.</p><p></p><p>That's what I have personally seen</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hejtmane, post: 7379833, member: 6799371"] I think this is the biggest reason and why I think that it has had a multiple effect; I grew up playing D&D and 1e like 99% of my young years and a little of 2e in college but most was still 1e. Fast forward dad sitting there and young teen son finds old 1e Unearth arcana book he has on shelf starts asking question he thinks it cools and wants to learn how to play and drags in his friends. Dad has to research because all he has is one 1e book he manages to get a hold of a 3.5 book researching realizes how crazy stupid the rules are and 4e looked more like an online mmo (just the way it felt to me from what I saw never played) but 5e is coming out soon so they play a 3.5 game first because he has the 3.5 phb as a stop gap and runs it with the more know 1e rule he remembers and preorders 5e starter kit waiting to see how that will look. Gets 5e starter kits after reading the 3.5 hand back and the what 5e going to look like easy decision 5e looks and feels a little more like 1e but without some of the things I hated about 1e (not everything was hunky dory in 1e). Son's group gets dm by his dad, which leads to Son and friends creating a Highs school club being created and they run that groupp. The group grows big enough hey had to split into two separate campaigns. Then he also starts a group at his church. So us older guys that played back in the day came back with 5e and our kids. Who then introduced it to their friends and now have played it the last 4 years are venturing out on their own taking 5e with them. That's what I have personally seen [/QUOTE]
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