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<blockquote data-quote="SSquirrel" data-source="post: 4136243" data-attributes="member: 5202">In my experience it is exceedingly rare that someone who doesn't play a game system sees an adventure and is spurred to then have their entire group go out and spend about $70 from the description of this group.&nbsp; While it is possible a scenario like you describe could happen, I don't see it as all that likely.&nbsp; Why would someone who has never played D&amp;D before spend the extra money on Complete Adventurer or Races of the Dragon, etc?&nbsp; Maybe my friends are just a bit more cautious when they get into a new game system, but most folks I know would just pick up the PHB (if they even all bought it) and maybe the DM would pick up the XPH.&nbsp; Yes OGL games can drive sales of WotC products, but I have never seen an adventure that made me buy into a game system as described above.&nbsp; I've bought game systems before simply b/c the concept was very cool and it had great art (I remember when I was a freshman in high school and RIFTS was released) and had lost of fun w/the game.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SSquirrel, post: 4136243, member: 5202"] In my experience it is exceedingly rare that someone who doesn't play a game system sees an adventure and is spurred to then have their entire group go out and spend about $70 from the description of this group. While it is possible a scenario like you describe could happen, I don't see it as all that likely. Why would someone who has never played D&D before spend the extra money on Complete Adventurer or Races of the Dragon, etc? Maybe my friends are just a bit more cautious when they get into a new game system, but most folks I know would just pick up the PHB (if they even all bought it) and maybe the DM would pick up the XPH. Yes OGL games can drive sales of WotC products, but I have never seen an adventure that made me buy into a game system as described above. I've bought game systems before simply b/c the concept was very cool and it had great art (I remember when I was a freshman in high school and RIFTS was released) and had lost of fun w/the game. [/QUOTE]

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