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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DMBear67" data-source="post: 7652126" data-attributes="member: 6694625">I've been playing D & D for 37 years. I was a kid when I started. For me, it will always be D & D! Do I play other RPGs? Yes! Pathfinder, Savage Worlds, GURPS, Star  Wars, Star Trek (out of print), MERP (again out of print), Shadowrun, Game of Thrones, Warhammer, and a half dozen more ! However, when DDN comes out full throttle  - I have been using the playtest version since it started for my group - I will invest into that system. For those of us who are older and have been playing forever, we will probably always be D&Ders. We will be those who play and invest in the game that we started with!  Do I think that there is another RPG that will cause the "brand" name of D & D to falter? NO! Because the older players with the disposable income (because we have good paying jobs, kids are graduated, house is paid off, etc) will always spend our money on D & D.  It comes to the point of who has the money to support the industry and the brands within the industry. In fact, some of the brands within the RPG industry have really great concepts but have been poorly executed - Serenity, Buffy, Slaine, Robotech, Champion/Hero, LOTR, Castles and Crusades is my short list. I own and have played a number of these over the years. Yet, I always come back to D & D. I have created my own world, races, feats, items, and spells. I have written 175 to 200 adventures for my groups over the years based on the D & D system but for different versions. I am too invested in the system to completely give it up! Yet WOTC also needs to realize that although I am invested in it, I can use what's out here and create what I need rather than buy any crappy stuff (like 2nd ed was). So WOTC needs to be careful with what they put out! As for expanding RPGs into other markets like cinema or MMOs, well ... we have the Gamers & D & D movies, Game of Thrones on HBO, and enough MMOs to choke a horse already! Yes, I wish there was an RPG based series on TV/Cable/Satellite like Pathfinder serializing the current comic book into a weekly show (maybe HBO can take another chance?) or that the Dead Gentlemen would take the financial risk and produce a series of Gamers movies that are more serialized and not so disjointed as the first two were. Both of those would be great. Maybe the folks who created Ultramarines could do an entire series of movies of all of the Space Marine chapters (Space Wolves would be a great 2nd movie).  In all reality though, we don't need anymore MMOs that have RPG specific worlds and storylines! An MMO in a generic fantasy world that has all of the various basics (races, classes, spells, equipment, etc) allows the player to play an RPG at anytime! That is enough !</blockquote>

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