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Message: <blockquote data-quote="eyebeams" data-source="post: 5292516" data-attributes="member: 9225">As far as the wider culture is concerned tabletop RPGs are already dead. What we are all currently participating in is a long tail effect. It's in our nature to dismiss it because of the type of selection that makes us a part of what is, from the larger perspective, a moribund scene.For example, in the recent trademark action over the term "rift" between Palladium Books and Trion, one of Trion's arguments was that compared to MMORPGs, tabletop games were basically so pitiful as to not even count as active maintenance of an associated trademark. And given that things were forced into mediation in a context where Palladium is almost certainly going to be worse off, it was probably a pretty good argument.Keep in mind, however, that many "dead" things are still relevant. The mass culture around comics is also pretty much dead but it's still influential in other media. RPG companies and scenes do seem pretty devoted to running a circus for their greying fans than making any serious effort in that direction, however, and may have already lost the opportunity through years of neglect.</blockquote>