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It has happened, back in the F2F days.

That just described nearly every gamer I've had at my table since 1979.

I long to run a Dark Suns campaign (with a different system). It was the best D&D setting produced, IMO. I'm going to give this product a good looking-over.

I quit when 2e came out, but I had been having doubts for quite a while. I had hoped their would reign in the power level and expand the combat system, but it was not meant to be.

TSR? That's hardcore edition loyalty. Although they did have good quality.

Given all the complaining about low wages and the regular reports of game companies folding, I would suggest that it is not working very well.

Doesn't really clear up the issue for me, but I wish you luck.

He will fail. Shame is his destiny.

I think you need to read the original, and more history. And fewer comic books.

I'm trying to decide if that is courage or folly.

I use a dash of CoC in nearly every non-fantasy campaign I run. It serves best, IMO, as a seasoning or a side, not a main dish.

I haven't been able to run these as they require players who are read-into the lore: anything 40k, L5R. I also have not been able to run Paranoia because I've never had the right group. There's always been a couple who just wouldn't fit.

Nonsense. You might wish to return to your core reading: the Trojan Horse was a literary metaphor. It wasn't intended as a literal story. Both the Iliad and Odyssey in their original are not silly at all; contemporary versions have deviated so far from the core as to be a terrible mockery. If...

CoC as a setting or setting concept is, IMO, amazing, and I use it to some degree in nearly every setting I play. They just do the occult right. But their system, whether BRP or 7e, just leaves me cold. I want to like it, and it has many agreeable points, but there are key choices they've made...

Yeah, we don't like that about you, either. ;) Everyone has their financial Achilles heel; if you are lucky, its only one or two. And I suspect Electric Basses retain some value over time, while TTRPG products have the investment potential of fresh milk.

I disagree about the hobby being silly. TTRPGs are grounded in the story-telling tradition that is as old as Mankind. However, like other forms of literary expression, individual components and concepts can be, and are, childish. But as you have noted, the choice at the table level, which is...

Yeah, jumping on a bandwagon is not a wise formula in the hobby, but its common.

Doubtful. It has to be located within a suitable power grid and zoning area, and building costs are steep these days.

True. But there are degrees throughout the hobby.

Not a lot of profit in bones, sadly. RPGs are a tricky product; not many hobbies exit where a percentage, possibly more than half, of the participants will buy the product. I do competitive tactical shooting as my primary hobby, and have for decades, and the buy-in never ends; I've many...