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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BryonD" data-source="post: 4705388" data-attributes="member: 957">I think the OGL will set 3.5 apart from the other versions.Inevitable is a pretty big word, of course eventually something better will come along.  Technology changes, if nothing else, will force that.  But the established pattern of games doesn't automatically mean that others will follow.  A different variable means a different path, and the OGL is a huge variable.4E is a fundamentally different approach to the idea.  Ultimately, I don't think it will play that big a role in 3E's demise.  3E is a decade on now.  It was very clearly losing steam well before 4e was announced.  Yeah, the new shiny drew the attention away from the old game and any old game is going to have trouble getting that back.  But, the backlash on 4E seems to be revitalizing 3E if anything.  It doesn't make it less inevitable that it will eventually go down.  Of course it will.  So will 4E.  But I think 4E has actually delayed the inevitable, not spurred it on.And, as an aside, 3E will outlast 4E.  That isn't an edition war comment, just a simple observation.  In a few years 5E will come along.  And 4E will go in a box.  The 3E/OGL community may be tiny at that point, but it will handle edition cycles far better than 4e.I'm not convinced that 4E will do nearly as good a job at keeping the new blood.  I think 4E will get fans, and a significant fraction will sooner rather than later move on.I'm also convinced that the numbers are larger than your guesses.  We are less than a year in and 4e attrition is already showing.</blockquote>

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