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<blockquote data-quote="Lord_Blacksteel" data-source="post: 6292442" data-attributes="member: 53082"><p>D&D RPG's, novels, and video games were popular before all of those things, from the gold box games and Dragonlance in the 80's on through the Drizzt books and the Baldur's Gate games in the 90's. Game of Thrones is pretty popular right now, zombies are a big deal, pirates have occasional movies and a TV series. I think there's plenty of room left for D&D to continue doing that and be successful. I think it will depend more on what they do than any general fantasy fatigue.</p><p></p><p>It does surprise me that they keep emphasizing this "new approach" - they've been doing it for 30 years in one way or another now. Not always well but they had the RPG-Boardgame-Cartoon-Videogame-Novels-Coloring Book-Action Figure-T-shirts-3-Ring Binder thing going back then and I can't recall it ever completely dying away since then.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Well, WOTC does still have DDI subscribers, and that was the way to get full access to Dragon and Dungeon for 4E so there were adventures involved. I have no idea what the numbers are but it has and does continue to exist.</p><p></p><p>With Paizo, the Dragon/Dungeon/AP subscription switch happened 6 years ago. While I agree that it probably did help them for a time, I'd say the continued success is due to their ongoing efforts rather than any inertia from that time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lord_Blacksteel, post: 6292442, member: 53082"] D&D RPG's, novels, and video games were popular before all of those things, from the gold box games and Dragonlance in the 80's on through the Drizzt books and the Baldur's Gate games in the 90's. Game of Thrones is pretty popular right now, zombies are a big deal, pirates have occasional movies and a TV series. I think there's plenty of room left for D&D to continue doing that and be successful. I think it will depend more on what they do than any general fantasy fatigue. It does surprise me that they keep emphasizing this "new approach" - they've been doing it for 30 years in one way or another now. Not always well but they had the RPG-Boardgame-Cartoon-Videogame-Novels-Coloring Book-Action Figure-T-shirts-3-Ring Binder thing going back then and I can't recall it ever completely dying away since then. Well, WOTC does still have DDI subscribers, and that was the way to get full access to Dragon and Dungeon for 4E so there were adventures involved. I have no idea what the numbers are but it has and does continue to exist. With Paizo, the Dragon/Dungeon/AP subscription switch happened 6 years ago. While I agree that it probably did help them for a time, I'd say the continued success is due to their ongoing efforts rather than any inertia from that time. [/QUOTE]
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