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<blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 3932250" data-attributes="member: 8863">I'd not say it's because of small RPG publishers, but the fact that there's many more entertainment options available.&nbsp; Particularly video games.&nbsp; They didn't exist back when Gary and Dave first worked out the original rules.&nbsp; Pong emerged around the same time D&amp;D did, but of course it took many years for them to get to the point where they could seriously compete with RPGs.&nbsp; While I don't believe video games will totally kill the traditional RPG (well until we get holodecks and can do LARPs the right way <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />), there's a lot of things that electronic RPGs and MMOs will be able to do as well as a traditional RPG, particularly the number crunching.&nbsp; The main advantage that traditional RPGs like D&amp;D still have is their open-endedness.&nbsp; They're limited not by their programming, but by the imaginations of their players.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Orius, post: 3932250, member: 8863"] I'd not say it's because of small RPG publishers, but the fact that there's many more entertainment options available. Particularly video games. They didn't exist back when Gary and Dave first worked out the original rules. Pong emerged around the same time D&D did, but of course it took many years for them to get to the point where they could seriously compete with RPGs. While I don't believe video games will totally kill the traditional RPG (well until we get holodecks and can do LARPs the right way ;)), there's a lot of things that electronic RPGs and MMOs will be able to do as well as a traditional RPG, particularly the number crunching. The main advantage that traditional RPGs like D&D still have is their open-endedness. They're limited not by their programming, but by the imaginations of their players. [/QUOTE]

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