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<blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 6596307" data-attributes="member: 37579">I was over on the WotC Community at the time. I registered here, posted a couple times, but mostly lurked. That was my main site (until the most recent site upgrades made posting on my iPad frustrating to impossible and left me unable to log in).RPGs are a greying hobby at best. There's certainly some life and room for new player, but the heydays are over and aren't coming back. Strategies do need to change from one of heavy expansion and sales to preservation and long term sustaining of the brand. A movie *might* help, as would a TV show. But that's well outside of WotC's control. They have to proceed as if that's not happening. Kinda. Since I started frequenting ENWorld more often I moved and now live and work in the Park, and don't make it into Edmonton often anymore. I find it more bittersweet that straight &quot;sucks&quot;. Extra books are nice, but quickly becomes too much for me. When I think of the books and content I have from Paizo that will never be used... it's scary. The majority of my RPG collection might as well be University textbooks for subjects I dropped. Current Jester is chafing for new content and books, but Future Jester will be happy with the restrained content. And I'm horrible to Future Jester and make him put up with all kinds of pain, so this just feels like karma. Excluding the years prior to 4e that is. For all of 2007 and the early parts of 2008 the books were straight freelancers. Oh, and the years prior to 5e as well, as 2011 and 2012 featured a lot of outsourced books. Actually... with only 3 of the 7 products released in the six month period being freelanced out, more products were done in-house than in 2011-2 and 2007.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jester David, post: 6596307, member: 37579"] I was over on the WotC Community at the time. I registered here, posted a couple times, but mostly lurked. That was my main site (until the most recent site upgrades made posting on my iPad frustrating to impossible and left me unable to log in). RPGs are a greying hobby at best. There's certainly some life and room for new player, but the heydays are over and aren't coming back. Strategies do need to change from one of heavy expansion and sales to preservation and long term sustaining of the brand. A movie *might* help, as would a TV show. But that's well outside of WotC's control. They have to proceed as if that's not happening. Kinda. Since I started frequenting ENWorld more often I moved and now live and work in the Park, and don't make it into Edmonton often anymore. I find it more bittersweet that straight "sucks". Extra books are nice, but quickly becomes too much for me. When I think of the books and content I have from Paizo that will never be used... it's scary. The majority of my RPG collection might as well be University textbooks for subjects I dropped. Current Jester is chafing for new content and books, but Future Jester will be happy with the restrained content. And I'm horrible to Future Jester and make him put up with all kinds of pain, so this just feels like karma. Excluding the years prior to 4e that is. For all of 2007 and the early parts of 2008 the books were straight freelancers. Oh, and the years prior to 5e as well, as 2011 and 2012 featured a lot of outsourced books. Actually... with only 3 of the 7 products released in the six month period being freelanced out, more products were done in-house than in 2011-2 and 2007. [/QUOTE]

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