Did 4th edition kill D&D?

Did 4th edition kill D&D?

Estimated by whom?

Yes. Good riddance.

This chart is extremely inaccurate. It's basically nothing but a sourceless lie.

Yes, temporarily.

3rd and 3.5 were around for a really, really long time. 4th kind of came and went.

Autists killed d&d. It was an ongoing project that started with Hasbro buying the franchise and reached peak bullshit with D&D 5e's Online Playtest.

This.

Mike "4e was a mistake" Mearls had to admit (probably while fighting back tears) that each successive edition sold more than the last.

You could still claim that 4e increased this number the least I guess.

>3rd and 3.5 were around for a really, really long time
That's a funny way of saying "AD&D was around for a really, really long time".

4e was around for only a brief time, but it is still being played at least (just like all editions of D&D except, I think, OD&D).

>OD&D

I mean, there are so many spinoffs it may as well count.