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Message: <blockquote data-quote="prosfilaes" data-source="post: 5692724" data-attributes="member: 40166">I'd actually say that those are part of the downfall of tabletop RPGs; that MMOs and computer games provide substitutes for RPGs for a lot of people who might otherwise be playing them.Just because there were better days in the past, doesn't mean there's a continual pattern of decline. Things have never been as hot for tulip growers since 1636, but that doesn't mean that nobody buys tulips anymore. Contract Bridge has being going downhill since before D&D was born. It's still out there, but it's unlikely it will ever be as big as it was in the 1960s. In the US, chess was huge at the time of Bobby Fischer, and crashed right after that. The United States Chess Federation hit 60k members in 1974, and dropped and didn't return in absolute numbers until 1994. Depending on what numbers I toss around, they're about the 1974 levels as percentage of population right now, but they've been on a decline since 2000.I think RPGs are fairly stable right now, but I tend to think we're far from the high point of gaming and unlikely to get back to where we were.</blockquote>