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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CountPopeula" data-source="post: 4410584" data-attributes="member: 27250">My guess? Nothing, really. Goodman Games would go out of business, maybe a few other 3rd party publishers that only sell D&D supplements and have firmly hitched their wagon to WoTC (I can only assume the GSL will end if D&D goes under), but in the grand scheme of things, I don't see it having an impact on any companies like White Wolf, Paizo, or SJG.Dungeons and Dragons is a pretty well known term. It's sort of to RPGs what Band-Aid is to bandages. But if Band-Aid fell off the face of the earth, I could still get Care-Band at walmart.Let me give you another example. When I was young, around 4-5, the generic term for video games was "atari games." When I was 8 or 9, the generic term for video games was "Nintendo Games." When i was in high school.... you guessed it "Playstation Games."Dungeons and Dragons doesn't do anything for the hobby as a whole. The brand doesn't need to exist, and if it went away, it wouldn't take the whole genre with it. When World of Warcraft goes offline, there will still be MMORPGs. And when D&D's last book runs off the press, there will still be an RPG industry. It might even be healthier without D&D, which has a negative connotation to the general public anyway.Let me use the football example. I love football, but it's a drain on the entertainment industry. When football was on strike, all the money that was normally spent tickets and food and foam fingers and such at the games in the football cities went to other things, like video game arcades, restaurants, and so forth.If D&D went out of existence, I think the money that's being spent on it would still be spent, just more of it would probably go to Paizo, Privateer Press, Steve Jackson Games, and probably some smaller companies would have an easier time selling their non-D20 games.</blockquote>

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