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<blockquote data-quote="xechnao" data-source="post: 4770595" data-attributes="member: 58105">You forget the dimension of time. Right now D&amp;D is a &quot;message&quot; that is supposed to establish a way, a path for Hasbro to make money by producing and selling certain &quot;goods&quot; to certain &quot;needs&quot;. So D&amp;D today is this certain kind of &quot;need&quot; -for the part of the population it sells to. In a hundred years, when D&amp;D could only be found as some historical reference D&amp;D will represent a different &quot;need&quot;.Now, I guess the question you wanted to make was how the current D&amp;D &quot;need&quot; relates to a certain kind of roleplaying &quot;need&quot; in D&amp;D's population market and perhaps their money too. I suspect not much. While D&amp;D is the market leader among tabletop rpgers, if D&amp;D was to be indefinitely shelved other names would take its place in the same population and that population would still give its money to these new names.I could not be so certain about this a year ago but today we know that the work Paizo has done with its lines seem to provide a respected D&amp;D vanilla fantasy like line in production to fill this kind of &quot;need&quot;.&nbsp; And this is all about this &quot;need&quot; we are talking about here: consistent production of a vanilla fantasy line.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="xechnao, post: 4770595, member: 58105"] You forget the dimension of time. Right now D&D is a "message" that is supposed to establish a way, a path for Hasbro to make money by producing and selling certain "goods" to certain "needs". So D&D today is this certain kind of "need" -for the part of the population it sells to. In a hundred years, when D&D could only be found as some historical reference D&D will represent a different "need". Now, I guess the question you wanted to make was how the current D&D "need" relates to a certain kind of roleplaying "need" in D&D's population market and perhaps their money too. I suspect not much. While D&D is the market leader among tabletop rpgers, if D&D was to be indefinitely shelved other names would take its place in the same population and that population would still give its money to these new names. I could not be so certain about this a year ago but today we know that the work Paizo has done with its lines seem to provide a respected D&D vanilla fantasy like line in production to fill this kind of "need". And this is all about this "need" we are talking about here: [B] consistent production of a vanilla fantasy line[/B]. [/QUOTE]

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