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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheAuldGrump" data-source="post: 5762230" data-attributes="member: 6957">The good or the bad depends more on the book trade, public awareness, and public relations than anything else.If games drop below a certain amount then it is likely that the bookstores will drop them. I believe that bookstores are the most common way that folks first see RPGs.The public is most aware of D&D - there are still people that call or describe all RPGs as 'Dungeons & Dragon'. (Gamer: I play Pathfinder! Random Guy: Is that like Dungeons & Dragons?) If D&D disappears from shelves then public awareness will likely drop. Pathfinder may, or may not, be outselling D&D, but it does not have the notoriety - I very much doubt that the 700 Club has ever done a segment on the evils of Pathfinder.If Hasbro is likely to drop D&D if it drops below a certain profitability then RPGs dropping from public awareness is something that is 'Bad'.And gamers arguing in a store does not help relations, at all. But gamers happily discussing the merits of this game or that is fine. For what it is worth, I have never seen 4e or Pathfinder gamers spewing hate for either 4e or Pathfinder in a bookstore. The only time that I saw such a thing was some GURPS players who went so far as to take a starter set of a 3.X D&D out of a kid's hands. I felt like beating them.The Auld Grump</blockquote>