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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 4612408" data-attributes="member: 2020">I say, whatever happens, don't blame it on the game.  Or even on WOTC.  Or, on anyone from Hasbro that comes to ENWorld.    Blame it on much bigger things.  The rise of computer games.  The rise of the internet (if it is so affecting Main Street, obviously it will affect hobby stores, and gaming, and how we game.)  The rise of all those card games.    D&D has a tough road to hoe.  But our hobby will be ok.  People want to enjoy fantasy roleplaying ... fantasy roleplaying, is something people enjoy and will spend huge amounts of that *MOST* precious of all commodities, time, upon.  What more proof is needed, that this is a hobby that will endure, that people are willing to give so much of their time and themselves, to it?  It may or may not stay a Face to Face hobby as *I* remember it, where we got together around a table (ala, those infamous Knights of the Dinner Table!) and ate food and drank pepsi (or coca-cola) and gamed.  Heck, I happen to believe we'll be doing this in Virtual Reality, in about 10 years (because in about 10 years, computers and the internet system will have advanced that far.)  Even those stubborn chess people, sitting in solemn silence broken only by the clamp of hand on time pieces, probably will alter their way of doing things (a virtual chess tournament! ...)    The whole world is changing around us.  But ...  Our hobby, our roleplaying, is going to stick around.  And, I'll swear by it.  D&D is going to stick around.  We'll be up to 20th edition (you thought Edition Wars were bad now, wait until 20 editions exist!) but hey ... again ... there will be more material available.  Call me an optimist (I am rather famous for my pessimism, but I wish to be optimistic here.)</blockquote>

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