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Originally Posted by Atgxtg
You missed my point. You see all ages at Chess clubs because Chess has been on the shelves continually. In RPG circles the same is true of D&D, in one form or another.
But it is hard for a 15 year old to pick up and play an RPG that hasn't been on the shelves for 20 years.
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I tend to agree with this...
Like Soltakss I really don't think the issue has much to do with the rules themselves, I think they stand up well to anything that's come along in recent years... some people aren't gonna like them no matter what and that's fine... if it was a matter of trendy mechanics being popular D&D oughtta be long gone.
It's pretty strong evidence though, that ,except for COC, I haven't seen a Chaosium product on a store shelf in a long long time. Stormbringer never had much of a retail presence at any of the stores I hung out at.
I'm not inclined to think that just bringing out the new edition is going to suddenly create a legion of rabid fans... and there are some ways in which I think BRP is not a 'for the masses' sort of flavor... but having it on the shelves again will at least give people a ready way to buy it and check it out.