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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thecasualoblivion" data-source="post: 4866723" data-attributes="member: 59096">Forked from: <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showpost.php?postid=4866690" target="_blank"> Mishler's rant part II.  (Forked Thread: another rpg industry doomsday article) </a>My response to this thread brings up an interesting point. In the current tabletop RPG world, alternatives to mainstream D&D are at a low ebb. Aside from White Wolf chugging along as the number 2 publisher, doing its own thing as always, what is really selling outside of 4E? 3PP 4E books aren't, outside of Goodman being modestly successful selling adventures. The OGL has slowed down considerably. Indie games and non-d20 systems are barely on the radar. Most people who haven't switched to 4E are playing old games. Either retro clones of a previously released game(and I would include Pathfinder in this), older editions of D&D, or playing older games that haven't been updated recently. A few blips here and there, but not a lot. There's 4E, and White Wolf puts out new games for their system, but outside of that, nothing new is really happening.While I'm happy with 4E myself, I've always liked having other systems around. I tend to prefer non-d20 systems when it comes to this personally, but thats me. I believe that people want something new, and something not D&D. I believe the not-D&D market has been focused on the OGL for a long time now, and I'm not sure the OGL is the future of not-D&D at this point.</blockquote>

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