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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 5300277" data-attributes="member: 58197">D&amp;D may not be the one who owns it, but when the one who owns it goes broke and shuts down, it's very bad for D&amp;D.The big expansion of the D&amp;D community took place in the mid-'80s, not the '90s. It was OD&amp;D and 1E that put the game on the map, probably helped along by the Satanism scare--no such thing as bad publicity and all that.Most of the '90s was a time when D&amp;D was losing market share to other RPGs, White Wolf especially. It didn't help that TSR was widely viewed as very hostile to the nascent Internet gaming community; it was a popular joke at the time that the initials stood for &quot;They Sue Regularly.&quot;It's possible that the number of D&amp;D players was still growing as an absolute--I don't know what their sales figures were like--but certainly the expansion was nothing like the 1E days.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 5300277, member: 58197"] D&D may not be the one who owns it, but when the one who owns it goes broke and shuts down, it's very bad for D&D. The big expansion of the D&D community took place in the mid-'80s, not the '90s. It was OD&D and 1E that put the game on the map, probably helped along by the Satanism scare--no such thing as bad publicity and all that. Most of the '90s was a time when D&D was losing market share to other RPGs, White Wolf especially. It didn't help that TSR was widely viewed as [i]very[/i] hostile to the nascent Internet gaming community; it was a popular joke at the time that the initials stood for "They Sue Regularly." It's possible that the number of D&D players was still growing as an absolute--I don't know what their sales figures were like--but certainly the expansion was nothing like the 1E days. [/QUOTE]

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