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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RobNJ" data-source="post: 369338" data-attributes="member: 3617">Indeed.  Dungeons & Dragons is irrelevent in today's world.  Fussbudgets seeking a public target to demonstrate how forcefully they can declaim their own moral superiority have several much juicier multibillion dollar industries to line up in their crosshairs: music, movies, video games.  Video games alone are nearly omnipresent in kids' lives today, and make thousands or tens of thousands of times the profit that the role playing game industry does.With massive, slow moving, extremely visible targets like that, it's hardly worth the effort to dredge the sewage-laden swamps of 80s cultural memory for BADD's hairsprayed, middle-aged, bored housewives.At this point, Dungeons and Dragons could produce a suppliment next week that was all the BADD-morons' dreams come true: something that had on page two, "If you follow this murderous ritual, you the reader will ascend to Beelzebub's right hand," and you know what would happen?  Not a damned thing.  No one cares about role playing anymore.Dark gaming may or may not be so-last-decade, but actually believing that anyone cares about role playing games anymore is undeniably so-2-decades-ago.</blockquote>