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<blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 9592303" data-attributes="member: 59082">We're now ten plus years into 5th edition and I've heard various whispers of people commenting that it is starting to feel a bit out-dated, perhaps not unlike AD&amp;D in the mid-to-late 90s, after Indie games had innovated in various ways. I could be reading this wrong, of course, or more likely it is a small minority of diehards who consume new games rather voraciously, but...it just seems that there isn't quite the buzz around 2024 that you might expect, even if sales are presumably robust.Now we have not only the OSR and its descendants, but a variety of well-regarded fantasy games on the market such as the various games by Free League and several others. It even seems that with advances in self-publishing, we're in a bit of a golden era of RPGs, as far as diversity and quality - so it is arguably the best era to be into RPGs, as far as options are concerned.Yet...D&amp;D still holds a huge percentage of the market share. Other games have fan-bases, but it still seems that no other fantasy game is able to carve out more than a cult following - and of those, probably a lot of folks still play D&amp;D as their main game, if only for convenience.This thread is NOT meant to be a criticism of D&amp;D or an under-handed way of saying it sux. I'm just curious why folks, especially for long-time players and diehards, are still playing D&amp;D as their primary game, given the wealth of other options.For the poll, just pick the one or two options that best suit your particular case.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mercurius, post: 9592303, member: 59082"] We're now ten plus years into 5th edition and I've heard various whispers of people commenting that it is starting to feel a bit out-dated, perhaps not unlike AD&D in the mid-to-late 90s, after Indie games had innovated in various ways. I could be reading this wrong, of course, or more likely it is a small minority of diehards who consume new games rather voraciously, but...it just seems that there isn't quite the buzz around 2024 that you might expect, even if sales are presumably robust. Now we have not only the OSR and its descendants, but a variety of well-regarded fantasy games on the market such as the various games by Free League and several others. It even seems that with advances in self-publishing, we're in a bit of a golden era of RPGs, as far as diversity and quality - so it is arguably the best era to be into RPGs, as far as options are concerned. Yet...D&D still holds a huge percentage of the market share. Other games have fan-bases, but it still seems that no other fantasy game is able to carve out more than a cult following - and of those, probably a lot of folks still play D&D as their main game, if only for convenience. This thread is NOT meant to be a criticism of D&D or an under-handed way of saying it sux. I'm just curious why folks, especially for long-time players and diehards, are still playing D&D as their primary game, given the wealth of other options. For the poll, just pick the one or two options that best suit your particular case. [/QUOTE]

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