Are we looking at an RPG Renassiance (moved to Tabletop Gaming)

[gyor]

As stated in the title.

Are we looking at an RPG Renassiance?

After several years of few products from various publishers, such as D&D and the World of Darkness, creating concerns that the industry was drying up, I can smell change in the are air.


We have the playtests for 5e and the Sundering is sign of life in FR.

With the Oxyn Path taking over for white wolf, new setting like Mummy: The Cursed and Demon:? Are coming out and the NWOD is getting an update via Godmachine and "Sexmurder" is doing the same for Requiem.

Pathfinder appears to be thriving, growing into new markets like Turkey.

Monte Cooks Numera not only reached its kickstarter Goal its blasted through stretched goals all the way to 517,000 dollars. His plans have expand because of the that to add several more books.

Also on kickstarter Obsidians Project Eternity promises to bring back the golden age of CRPGs, before world of warcraft. They've exceeded thier goals of 1.1 million, and are getting close to 2.2 million thier next stretch goal and rising. They've already added 2 more races, two more classes, and two more companions, and so on.

So again I ask does anyone else feel like were entering Golden Age of RPGs?

 

[ferratus]

No, because nobody has time to play RPG's anymore. The reason CRPG's and MMORPG's are drinking D&D's milkshake is because you can show up on your schedule, play a couple hours and come back and play some more at your convenience.

I can scrounge around to find 30 players that want to play D&D, but only 2 that will show up for the first session these days. Then getting one of those two to show up for a second session is also difficult.

Maybe I'm just bitter though because I haven't been able to get a D&D game going in over a year since I moved to a new city. I can understand people not wanting to come after a few sessions because I suck as a DM, but not getting people to show up once after a score of players have expressed interest is really frustrating.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Probably not on the order of that which occurred when 3E released, unless 5E has some sort of similar OGL license. I think the d20 SRD and OGL did a lot to open up new gaming avenues -- and that was during a time when MMORPGs were massively on the rise.

 

[GreyICE]

No, the golden age of RPGs is dead and gone. The silver age of RPGs is dead and gone. We miiiighhhttt drag ourselves out of the Dark Age of RPGs and into some sort of Modern Age of RPGs, but this hobby will never again reach the highpoint it had in the 1980s.

 

[Blackbrrd]

I am not sure, but I would bet money on pen-and-paper RPG's being a bigger business now than it ever was. Having problem getting to meet up for a game? It's not because people are less interested, but because you are older and people get more stuck with family/work.

I haven't played too much lately, mainly because neither myself or the other guy that usually runs as DM has done so for about 2 years. Personally, I haven't been motivated enough to get a campaign going and the other guy is married and had his first kid.

It takes a good DM to hold a group together, and they are hard to come by.

 

[gyor]

Its a shame that the virtual table died, it was designed to address that.

 

[amerigoV]

No, the golden age of RPGs is dead and gone. The silver age of RPGs is dead and gone. We miiiighhhttt drag ourselves out of the Dark Age of RPGs and into some sort of Modern Age of RPGs, but this hobby will never again reach the highpoint it had in the 1980s.

http://www.enworld.org/forum/news/328367-gencon-attendance-sets-record-41-000-attendees.html

Sometimes we just gotta get outside of this interweb thang. We might just find out that things are not so bad (and that is true for many things these days, not just RPGs). Now the golden age of D&D might be over, but SOMETHING must be dragging these people out to GenCon (probably Savage Worlds - W00t!)

 

[GreyICE]

http://www.enworld.org/forum/news/328367-gencon-attendance-sets-record-41-000-attendees.html

Sometimes we just gotta get outside of this interweb thang. We might just find out that things are not so bad (and that is true for many things these days, not just RPGs). Now the golden age of D&D might be over, but SOMETHING must be dragging these people out to GenCon (probably Savage Worlds - W00t!)

Oh there's Cons, there's events, there's all sorts of things. We can talk about social changes all we want. But in its heyday, RPGs were played in schools, in clubs, all over the place. It had a market share of millions. Nothing has ever touched 1E D&D.

The silver age was definitely the White Wolf Renascence, which definitely represented the high points of the new era of RPGs.

At this point, there's a large awareness that D&D exists, and many people have played it (after all, it was HUGE during the 1980s) but much less play it now.

Computers just cut into the market in a big way, and PnP RPGs will never be the same. That doesn't mean the hobby is dying, in fact I think as the backlash against some of this technology continues, RPGs might return, but the idea that we're in some sort of era where "PnP RPGs have never been bigger!" is false. D&D is acknowledged as the market leader and look how many problems they have. Paizo gets big, what's the first thing they do? Build a computer game. White Wolf is looking into computer games (if they could do anything competently they'd have made some really good ones by now, but White Wolf is like a comedy of errors). Savage Worlds is... it's a thing, I suppose.

Just ask yourself, which of these franchises is out of place: "Call of Duty," "Final Fantasy," "James Bond," "Harry Potter," "Dungeons and Dragons."

Yuuuppppp.

 

[SageMinerve]

Just ask yourself, which of these franchises is out of place: "Call of Duty," "Final Fantasy," "James Bond," "Harry Potter," "Dungeons and Dragons."

Yuuuppppp.

Funnily enough (or not, what do I know?), my answer would be "Final Fantasy".

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Just ask yourself, which of these franchises is out of place: "Call of Duty," "Final Fantasy," "James Bond," "Harry Potter," "Dungeons and Dragons."

Yuuuppppp.

James Bond, of course. The others are all fictional.