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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Abstruse" data-source="post: 8557697" data-attributes="member: 6669048">Traditionally not a problem in TTRPGs. The industry isn't large enough for companies outside the industry to care, and the ones in the industry aren't big enough to buy out other companies. The rare times it does happen, the buying company only cares about the IP not the roleplaying game. Cryptic Studios bought Champions because it was cheaper than paying for a license to make an MMORPG, then just licensed Champions back to Hero Games for the TTRPG. Paradox bought White Wolf because they wanted to make Vampire: The Masquerades Bloodlines 2, not because they cared about the tabletop game (that's why they licensed it out again the moment it became a problem for them). Asmodee didn't buy Fantasy Flight for the RPGs, they bought them for the board games. The only company in the TTRPG space large enough to buy out any other companies is Wizards of the Coast, and they are completely uninterested in doing so. They don't even make TTRPGs for properties Hasbro owns like Transformers and Power Rangers, they license those out to other companies like Renegade Games.Seriously, you are worried about a problem that does not exist. If you're worried about independent RPG companies, the fear should be that they will go out of business, not that they'll get bought out.</blockquote>