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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daztur" data-source="post: 9435365" data-attributes="member: 55680">In my own personal bubble (which is not representative of the overall hobby but it's what I know) after a couple year hiatus from the hobby during the dying days of TSR and the 3.0 era things went like this:1. 3.5e was the default, most every campaign was that or at least d20.2. After people got burned out on 3.5e and didn't like 4e we played a whole slew of different campaigns with no default game. We never played PF 1e as it was seen as just more of the stuff that burned us out about 3.5e.3. 5e ended becoming the default for us for years and years. Most didn't love it but it was a good enough compromise.4. People are starting to get burned out on 5e, nobody in my bubble is excited about 5.5e (but none are hostile to it, a gung-ho 5.5e DM could probably put together a campaign) so we're back to playing a different system in every campaign.Don't see a new default system for my bubble on the horizon. I think there'll be more people like us in the future. 5.5e won't be quite as strong of a default as 5e (how many 5e people 5.5 converts is an open question but have seen literally ZERO people going "I quit 5e but 5.5e is dragging me back" and it's not like 5.5e has much room to grow in terms of RPG market share) and veteran players tend to bounce between games more than newbies.I think we might have a new age of Fantasy Heartbreakers with a bigger and bigger wave of disgruntled 5e players making their own D&D-inspired games. 90% will probably suck, but the remaining 10% are going to have some glorious naughty word.I'm looking forward to a new boom in game design like the Indie game boom and the OSR, not sure what it'll be but I'm sure we'll get some fun new games in the next decade if D&D market share falters even a bit.</blockquote>

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