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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thunderfoot" data-source="post: 6364747" data-attributes="member: 34175">Okay, here's my take after talking with James Sutter of Paizo at GenCon.  If D&D is even a moderate success, it's great for the whole industry.  His take was as such, when 4e dropped and ultimately "flopped", Paizo stepped into the power vacuum and kept things going.  So if WotC is ready to push the envelope then all of us have to step up our game, only good can come from this.  I agree BTW, even though I didn't p/u Pathfinder.  After the ENnies this year it's obvious that between Monte Cook, Evil Hat and Paizo, the industry could survive for quite a while, but it's also obvious that WotC took the hint and is really trying to get back to being the 500 pound gorilla in the corner.  I think even if it isn't the commercial success they are looking for, WotC has a winner on their hands.  What WotC should probably do is convince Hasbro that D&D can survive mass markets and put the starter box in general commercial stores (like Wal-Mart, Target, etc.) right along side their M:tG Cards.  The 80s are over and the "evil evangelical empire" of parental watchdog groups have many other fish to fry (Hip-hop culture, drugs, etc.)  Hell, D&D could even come out looking good as a socially acceptable form of activity as you usually gather at the "dining room table" IOW in the house and in sight of parents.I can't say this last part will happen, but it could and should. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Just my two coppers. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/glasses.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt="B-)" title="Glasses    B-)" data-shortname="B-)" /></blockquote>

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