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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9234332" data-attributes="member: 29398">Everything goes through D&D and unless something drastic happens, probably always will.  For 99+% of the player base, D&D is/was the gateway into the hobby, largely because it's the only RPG with any name recognition outside the hobby.Fact of life, like it or not: that ain't changing anytime soon, which means if D&D falters or sinks then the player base slowly withers away because there is no other viable gateway and - despite various people's wishes to the contrary - no sign of one emerging anytime soon if ever.And thus, for the hobby as a whole.D&D is a full-size battleship, big enough to make people sit up and take notice.  By comparison, everything else is somewhere between a leaky rowboat and a mid-size pleasure yacht that nobody would pay any attention to if the battleship wasn't there.</blockquote>