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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 4886196" data-attributes="member: 58197">I'm going to have to agree with the '80s and early '90s as the Golden Age. That was the time when many RPGs that were not D&D were flourishing, new games were coming out all over the place, and there were gaming groups to be found everywhere.Of course, it was unsustainable. Much like the tech bubble of the late '90s, lots of people rushed into a hot new market, and for a while everyone was riding high until it became clear that the market could not sustain most of them. Then they died and their games went with them. Most of the gamers who had played them got older and went on to other things.Three editions of D&D in existence at once does not make a Golden Age of Gaming. The RPG market right now consists almost entirely of games that have been around 20 years or more (D&D, White Wolf, GURPS, et cetera). I don't think we're going to have another Golden Age until somebody figures out a new model for the RPG, something better suited to the era of MMOs and Facebook.</blockquote>