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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 6068918" data-attributes="member: 59082">What are these "CDs" you speak of? Some artifacts from a prior epoch?On a serious note, though, I agree with you and wanted to give a more specific example for [MENTION=84465]B.T.[/MENTION] I read the first Game of Thrones (which I liked but didn't love) before the show came out and then, once the show started, decided that it was good enough that I could watch the show instead of read the books. Watching the show is still a time investment (10 hrs per season) but not nearly as much as reading the books (maybe 30 hrs per book), plus the quality of the show is so high that even though the books are good, I don't feel like I'm missing out. There's a difference between demise and decline. Demise is death; D&D won't die, I imagine, for many decades. But decline? Well it already has from its peak in the early to mid 80s. It spiked again in the early 00s, but nearly as high as twenty years before. I suspect that there will be further spikes with each edition, but they're looking more and more like dead cat bounces than renaissances. Now it is certainly possible that D&D and tabletop RPGs experience a cultural revival and thrive again, but how to make that happen is The Big Question in the industry, and one that no one has been able to answer (obviously). Dead cat bounce.</blockquote>