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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Shaman" data-source="post: 5711741" data-attributes="member: 26473">Seriously, does any of this have anything to do with the subject of your post? If you had left all of this out of your post, would it have made any difference at all to your argument? Or is the opportunity to slag older editions of D&D just too tempting to pass up?First, do you understand that your view of the physical gaming community suffers from selection bias?The people with whom you play is largely made up of gamers who play more recent editions, therefore when you look around at other gamers, guess what you see? Yup, gamers who like the same things you like.See, if I look around at the gamers I know in meatspace, I see lots of gamers playing pre-3e D&D and none playing 3.0e or later. Should I draw from that the observation the presumption that no one plays 3e, 4e, or Pathfinder? No, 'cause that would be selection bias as well.Now, as to your initial question?No, because many of the gamers with whom I play I met through online communities of one sort or another.There're the guys from Dragonsfoot with whom I play at an annual con and other events. There's the guy in my face-to-face group I met through a Yahoo group (and who plays in four - FOUR! - BECMI D&D groups, by the way). There're the guys I met through a gaming Meetup. There's the guys I met through Obsidian Portal for whom I'm going to run a one-shot with an option on starting a regular campaign after the holidays.And more importantly, there're the people we know outside of the various forums, groups, and what-not who play the same games we do but don't participate online. Like two of the four players in my Flashing Blades game. Like two of the five players in the OD&D one-shot in which i participated this spring, and who play in a regular AD&D game. Like one of the players in our Dragonsfoot con games last summer who is an avid AD&D Greyhawk gamer.So, to answer your question again, no, I don't see a disconnect; in my case, the online and physical gaming communities are filled with many of the same people.</blockquote>

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