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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LightPhoenix" data-source="post: 3280038" data-attributes="member: 115">Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but that seems to be exactly what you are saying.  I understand what you are saying about the MtG effect, however I don't think that it can be stated with any sort of confidence that those kids playing MtG would have been RPGs in general, or played D&D specifically.  They are two very different types of games, mechanically and financially.  It seems to me that there is a hidden implication that all gamers will like all games, and naturally anyone who liked MtG was a latent RPG fan.  I don't think (ie opinion) that's the case at all.  Look at athletes as a similar example - while certainly some atheletes do enjoy multiple sports, and enjoy all sports on some minimal level, that doesn't mean a soccer player would gladly play football, or that the existence of soccer is responsible for the lower number of rugby players.I also understand how you are saying D&D was a feeder game for RPGs in general.  I'm tempted to say that it's more dependant on who you started gaming with, but given that D&D was and still is the most popular RPG, I don't think I can really present that argument with any sort of decency.  Perhaps if RPGs were more widespread and there was greater variety, that may be the case, but right now it certainly seems to be.I'm also going to point out at this juncture, though not directed at you Steel_Wind, that at the time TSR was bought out, Interplay had the rights to D&D computer games and Bioware didn't even exist.  In fact, Interplay had the D&D license until 2001, when Shadows of Amn was released.  Were WotC not to go and acquire TSR due to a MtG flop (ugh, rampant what-if speculation), I personally think that D&D games wouldn't exist at all today how we know them.  I think the property would have been in so much turmoil, regardless of who acquired it, as to inspire very little confidence in publishers investing in the D&D brand.  Atari (who owns it, not Bioware) probably never would have took on the D&D license (after five years of possible further decline), it either being not available or no one willing to pay for it, and Bioware probably would have gone on to make another game based on their own intellectual property - possibly even a spiritual successor to Fallout 2.</blockquote>

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