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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 9434276" data-attributes="member: 20323">I'll probably break this down further in a week or two, but so far here's what I am observing...We know that about half of previous survey-responding ENWorlders want to get 2024 D&D, and about 1/3rd do not want to get 2024 D&D. I want to be clear that I'm not discounting the folks voting "I'm getting 2024 D&D" – that's just not the focus of this poll. Also, not discounting folks voting "I'm happy with 1e/2e/3e/4e/BXMI", they just probably were not in market for 2024 D&D.If you consider that ~6,000 folks viewed that previous thread and only 172 voted... well, it's hard to know how many viewers are members or guests... but the point is that we're looking at a niche (survey-responders) of a niche (ENWorlders). Polls on ENWorld might get up to 300 or so respondents (sometimes less, sometimes more), but compare that to polls on YouTube or Reddit with 3,000 respondents, and it's clear we're a niche here.So I'm not making any assumptions about overall gaming community. Just folks on ENWorld who are actively engaged on the forums and caring to vote.Also, the way multiple-choice polls work here, I don't get to see the total number of voters, so I'll have to work that out in a spreadsheet later on. Edit: Though 1/3 of 172 previous respondents would be about 57.The top 3 concerns so far are:1) Concerns about the practices of WotC/Hasbro (41.8%) - there seems to be a roughly even split between folks for whom this is a "poison pill" issue, and others for whom this is a "tipping the balance" issue.2) Power creep for PCs (22.4%)3) Looks harder / more frustrating to GM (21.2%) - there's a fair amount of overlap of folks who voted both for "power creep for PCs" and "looks hard / more frustrating to GM."There are a bunch of "Other"/write-in answers (24.2%) too. I'll have to sort through patterns more, but the one that jumped out to me was: I'm happy with 2014 D&D, and don't see a need for 2024 which is alternately described as "glorified errata" or a "different game."We also can see that many of the survey responders (48.5%) have already moved on to other RPGs, predominantly completely different ones but also including variants of 5e, and are content there.</blockquote>

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