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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9649929" data-attributes="member: 18">I think there will be a bunch of abortive attempts by various parties to get people to &quot;unify&quot; behind a specific D&amp;D-like game, which will start out very polite and well-meaning, as everyone is used to playing distant second fiddle to D&amp;D, but will likely end up just causing &quot;console wars&quot;-style shenanigans between people who support this or that version.Despite the acrimony, this may well be good for the industry and indeed for the longer-term survival of TTRPGs as a hobby, because I think without WotC pushing the D&amp;D IP and merch, and putting out new books, a lot of people and groups will actually drift to other RPGs.Now, some will say &quot;Why would they?!?!?!?! They've got years or even infinity D&amp;D materials!!!!&quot; but that's not how humans behave, or at least not how modern consumers behave. A lot of people want new content, new horizons, they want the sense that some new is being provided to them, and various companies will try to provide that.I think we'll also get a rush of settings which attempt to replicate older D&amp;D settings now there's no chance of WotC doing it - i.e. Planescape, Dark Sun, Ravenloft, etc. - these already exist but we'd see a lot more of them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9649929, member: 18"] I think there will be a bunch of abortive attempts by various parties to get people to "unify" behind a specific D&D-like game, which will start out very polite and well-meaning, as everyone is used to playing distant second fiddle to D&D, but will likely end up just causing "console wars"-style shenanigans between people who support this or that version. Despite the acrimony, this may well be good for the industry and indeed for the longer-term survival of TTRPGs as a hobby, because I think without WotC pushing the D&D IP and merch, and putting out new books, a lot of people and groups will actually drift to other RPGs. Now, some will say "Why would they?!?!?!?! They've got years or even infinity D&D materials!!!!" but that's not how humans behave, or at least not how modern consumers behave. A lot of people want new content, new horizons, they want the sense that some new is being provided to them, and various companies will try to provide that. I think we'll also get a rush of settings which attempt to replicate older D&D settings now there's no chance of WotC doing it - i.e. Planescape, Dark Sun, Ravenloft, etc. - these already exist but we'd see a lot more of them. [/QUOTE]

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