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<blockquote data-quote="molonel" data-source="post: 3661512" data-attributes="member: 10412">Neither can you. In fact, the numbers required to talk about this subject have not been compiled by anyone. Nobody has put together the numbers of independent sellers, PDF sales, and every seller dealing in tabletop RPGs. You've only mentioned D&amp;D sales, while conceding that they are a smaller share of the market than when you ran TSR. How relevant are they, then? The only way to know that is to determine what share of the market they possess. And we can't do that without the numbers you can't provide, either.And you, rather conveniently, prefer to disregard the millions of games based off of your work that appear on a computer screen. Any attempt to argue with this assumption is trivial wordplay and niggling.Except when you argue about it.Then don't argue with me through stage whispers.There are millions of people all over the world playing roleplaying games of many different varieties. More people, in fact, than have ever played roleplaying games in history.You were one of the pivotal figures in that genre's genesis. Nobody has denied that.But the number of games that people play, and the ways that they enjoy them, and the means by which those games are experienced, and the number of people playing them is bigger than ever before.Not smaller.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="molonel, post: 3661512, member: 10412"] Neither can you. In fact, the numbers required to talk about this subject have not been compiled by anyone. Nobody has put together the numbers of independent sellers, PDF sales, and every seller dealing in tabletop RPGs. You've only mentioned D&D sales, while conceding that they are a smaller share of the market than when you ran TSR. How relevant are they, then? The only way to know that is to determine what share of the market they possess. And we can't do that without the numbers you can't provide, either. And you, rather conveniently, prefer to disregard the millions of games based off of your work that appear on a computer screen. Any attempt to argue with this assumption is trivial wordplay and niggling. Except when you argue about it. Then don't argue with me through stage whispers. There are millions of people all over the world playing roleplaying games of many different varieties. More people, in fact, than have ever played roleplaying games in history. You were one of the pivotal figures in that genre's genesis. Nobody has denied that. But the number of games that people play, and the ways that they enjoy them, and the means by which those games are experienced, and the number of people playing them is bigger than ever before. Not smaller. [/QUOTE]

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