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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PaulofCthulhu" data-source="post: 4253180">Unfortunately they often seem to be not very good at it. Usually it's all they can do to publish the games. Decent marketing can cost far more money than the production of the original content.Funny thing about tabletop RPGs is that it requires people sitting together in the same room to play them. Without a certain 'Gamer Population Density', games don't happen. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />I've heard more people recenty say that they got into roleplaying by passing a Local Games Store and going in to look at the curious stuff inside, rather than the usual argument that games stores don't do such a thing, just support existing gamers. I find that interesting.I wonder what methods can be used to recruit new gamers?I think one thing that the release of D&D 4e has shown, is the power now of online retail, and likely a harbinger of more games store closures, and fewer new store openings.</blockquote>