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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Croesus" data-source="post: 5445076" data-attributes="member: 35019">These two comments reminded me of the following posts (When was the last time you bought a tie? and Why I don't sell Kimchi):<a href="http://sethgodin.typepad.com/" target="_blank">Seth's Blog</a>Consider, prior to TSR and D&D, there was no TTRPG market. TSR in effect created a new market by providing something consumers didn't even know they wanted. In doing so, they created what we today refer to as the RPG industry. All competition within the industry seems to be simply more of the same - no one is attempting to recreate the TSR experience of creating a totally new market. There are opportunities to do so. Anyone remember "How to Host a Murder"? I played several of the games, mostly with people who wouldn't be caught dead playing D&D. Yet I also saw more real roleplaying in those sessions than I see in the average TTRPG game. The rules are simpler, the scenes more structured, the gameplay much more laid back, and most of all, prep time is minimal. And for a time, they were very successful. Yet no one considers them to be part of the RPG "industry".Just my two cents', but I think the only way we'll have an "exceptionally successful" RPG company is if they create something new, rather than simply regurgitating the same old stuff to the same old tired market.</blockquote>