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Message: <blockquote data-quote="francisca" data-source="post: 2555023" data-attributes="member: 9734">I know of more people who have been driven out of D&D by the RPGA than have been recruited.  It's only one man's experience, so frame it as such.What to do to grow the hobby?  My question is: Why?  To what purpose?  The cynic in me says, "Why should I be an unpaid salseman?  So Hasbro can profit?"  Seriously.As was pointed out by Mearls, we don't need them, or any other publisher, for that matter, and I don't feel any need to go out and evangelize the game, just to make sure Wizard's little piece of the pie stays profitable.  I also can't help but think that many feel a need to bring in more players to assuage their own feelings about playing the game.  Personally, I like playing D&D, and I'm perfectly fine with that.  As long as I can find other people to play with, and I have no doubt that I can, I don't care if my group is the last D&D group on earth.  I don't need mass-market acceptance of RPGs as a pastime to validate all the time and money spent on this hobby.Now, having said that, since 2001, I've brought 3 people back to the game who haven't played in years and pulled in 7 more who never played before.  One of the guys in my group spun off his own game, and pulled in another 5.Why did Eric and I do this?  Not because we felt some duty to keep the game on life support.  We did it because it is a hell of a lot of fun, and we knew some people who we'd like to hang out with a couple of time a month and share the fun with.That's the reason to recruit new players into the game.  Recruit because it is a fun game, not because you are afraid that fewer players will lead to lower demand for new gaming material, thereby drying up that steady flow of new books and pdfs you are addicted to.Actually, now that I think about it, there is one other reason.  Support your local gamestore.  There are exceptions, but most of the folk who run these stores are good people.  In addition, many gamestores are locally owned, and it's always a good thing to support your local economy.(wow, that came off grumpier than I expected.  need more coffee....)</blockquote>

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