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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Todd Roybark" data-source="post: 7937747" data-attributes="member: 6920677">No.  Either you or someone at the RPG table has to purchase something before one can know if you are dissatisfied with it.  Lack of a comparative  sized RPG competitor also means, people will stick with the dominant paradigm.  Casual players, do not know about Pathfinder, WFRP 4, MGT 2 etc....they don’t.   A listing on Amazon for Pathfinder 2, won’t grab one’s attention as say seeing a sparkly Earthdawn RPG book in a shop can attract your eyes.Many people in the 1980s played the game a few times and that was it.  The sales trend was not sustainable.I doubt, the current D&D sales surge will be at the same rate 2-5 years from now.To use an example of sales of a material product in the USA, gun ownership in the USA based off household is at it’s lowest point for the last several decades.  What has kept firearm sales steady, is that those who would buy firearms, purchase more than one.  The market is sustained by the collectors.   (Lets us keep this apolitical, Firearms were used as an example of a material product only..lets keep it that way<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤞" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f91e.png" title="Crossed fingers    :fingers_crossed:" data-shortname=":fingers_crossed:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />).</blockquote>