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So are you saying the roleplaying tabletop population is increasing? Because the consensus of the thread regarding Dancey's post is that tabletop rpgames as they are, are becoming harder and harder to stay afoot when they have to compete for people's gaming-hobby time. I am not avoiding my core...

These do not help for the entry level. The more things you need to successfully play the game the more you are losing its entry point. I believe you can do a game that can focus on exciting combat and exciting fighting with what I am talking about. I sort of envision it like what the effects of...

What I am saying that it wont be a big business for long if it remains like this. Cause people will not play tabletops anymore if tabletops wont adjust for accessibility to the natural advantages of the tabletop environment. A rules lite game, if done well, with few abstract rules, done well...

Casual gamers are most of the million gamers that have played the game when it was at its peak. The game almost definitely will never reach that peak again but if it is to maintain itself for the very long run at some acceptable mass market level it should be reinvented as more casual...

Are you a newbie or an old gamer? And even if you are a newbie for everyone like you there will be 1000 to log on some MMO server with their friends. So what do you say? Is it because tabletop is a worse environment?

It has because this is what sucks up gameplay and gametime. It is the biggest one requirement to play 4e regarding the time and effort you invest as a player. Rules, gameplay etch

The DDminiatures is not a rpgame. It is a miniatures game. The D&D rpgame should stop being a minis game and see how it can focus on fantasy roleplaying period. Not fantasy roleplaying using miniatures. Today things are so competitive, time runs so fast that more than ever an industry really has...

100% :) This does not mean that they should make an inferior or less fun game. If this is what you are afraid of I would say that the game could absolutely be even better and more fun than what there is now. I would say they have been trying to reach as many a pocket of the hardcore gamer...

This is why the game should not try to appeal to its traditional fandom but try to be an attraction for everyone, in other words the casual gamer. So to target its market for each generation.

Not optimized for a tabletop roleplaying game. The experience is still different than playing online but it has many a price to pay -for example the time some people complain about- and in comparison less more to offer. Moreover there are tabletop games, such as board games that they too offer a...

You have been ninjaed EDIT to add: good you have asked and he replied :-)

Yep, I fully got that from your post and I tried to explain. I also gave a couple of examples such as combat and skill challenges and how they are off the mark that the game should be designed to target. Btw I am not saying that you are not having fun or that the game is not for you. I am saying...

You nailed it. Initially there was high demand. Consequently there was high production. But after some little time consumers got burnt. The industry had not been anticipating this. So in the end the industry somehow burnt itself too. Now distributors only carry a couple of houses. And when I am...

Reading this post and some others makes me think that Wotc has failed strategically with D&D on the tabletop arena. It has failed to make a product that helps and inspires people to closely live fantastic adventures with their friends. It has succeeded instead to produce a game, a functional...

Here is my theory. When you are learning something new -and especially when you are not learning in an academic fashion- when you get involved with a new subject, the interest you have been generating exaggerates the actual possibilities as you still fail to perceive the limits of the...

A product should remind you and inspire you about the environment its functionality is dealing with. Wotc would shrink its market by doing what you are talking about. People would simply not tabletop game in such a format anymore: they would rather play some board game and as of a consequence...

Roleplaying with your group of friends for one. This is what I mean too. I am calling for a simpler yet more powerful and equally solid game. Each player should not need a dozen of rolls to play his turn that represents 1/50th of an encounter. Nor should we need a board and minis to limit...

There is some truth in this. But then Dungeon & Dragon magazines have most of the time been subscription based. OTOH from what I have been reading in the forums DDI does seem to replace the need to buy all the books for some people. But the problem is that the customer should not feel the weight...

The point I was trying to make above is that Wotc should try to fix this in its rpg games. Mechanics should fly a lot faster on a tabletop game, yet the depth of options and possibilities should be as big, solid and well organized if not even more as what games they are doing now. They need a...

Wotc should make games in such a way and teach about it its customers that they should not need to buy all the books to make out of the game as much fun as possible. This collector pov may be good for some business but not in the long run, especially if you want to open your market and cater to...