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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JeffB" data-source="post: 6058380" data-attributes="member: 518">I always enjoy Matt's year end wrap up. But I get anmoyed by his "I heard from one guy that another guys product sold..." BS.  He has a bad habit of  using those statements to back up his viewpoint on how the whole market is doing. The truth is that barring Traveller, Mongoose no longer has any RPG brands that are attarctive to anything but a very very  small subset of RPGers, and often even smaller as some games that are pretty popular on his side of the pond have absolutely no traction here in the states.That said, the Golden Age will never return because D&D became a worldwide fad/phenomenom in the very early 1980s. It is not ever going to happen again. 3e was the perfect storm because of its timing, and some smart people in charge of the brand who were gamers who did not answer to shareholders. The "glory days" are over and this medium of entertainmen has been far eclipsed by technology. Thanks to the SRD and easy second hand methods of getting materials, you can play the version you want for the rest of your life, and IMO gamers would be better off spending their time playing and talking about what they love AND TEACHING OTHERS TO PLAY instead of tearing other versions and their fans down, or worrying about capturing lightning in the bottle *again* "for the sake of the hobby's future". The OSR is proof positive the hobby will remain long after corporate america has abandoned it.</blockquote>

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