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<blockquote data-quote="Alnag" data-source="post: 3486018" data-attributes="member: 10087">Jeez! Chris Pramas! Now I am bit timid, because I feel deep respect to Green Ronin. But I have to admit, I find your article full of new interesting ideas and new emerging questions.Interesting. How severely is the number of roleplayers shrinking. And how many of roleplayers is acutally out there today. I only know the old WotC survey, which is a lot out-of-date today. I've read a lot about vanishing hobby stores (form Ryan Dancey) and I must admit, that this effect I see here in my country as well. From about 10 of hobby stores in Prague 3 are left today. Not good for a capital city with 1,3 million inhabitants. But on the other hand I don't feel shrinkage of roleplayers rather the opposite. But it is possible, that Central Europe was not yet hit by the RPG market trauma.Is there really a death spiral of d20? I am surprised, because I would expect the opposite. Once the market evolution of the market selected the strong publisher (survival of the fittest) I would expect the blossom of the few chosen ones. And I expect the Green Ronin to be one of them.Is D&amp;D and WotC stagnating? In what sense? In the amount of players, or solded products of both? What are the reasons? This might be severe problem later because D&amp;D is entry-level game par excellence and its health is desperately needed by anyone else on the market. If D&amp;D is ill the RPG market is ill as well. Because the new players usually coming through the D&amp;D to other products are not comming this time.I also have a feeling, that this effect of D&amp;D waves of success (and overall RPG market growth) and failure and drastical impacts on the market are cyclical and we are right now on the descent. What is you opinion as a publisher and gamer? And what the others think about it?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Alnag, post: 3486018, member: 10087"] Jeez! Chris Pramas! Now I am bit timid, because I feel deep respect to Green Ronin. But I have to admit, I find your article full of new interesting ideas and new emerging questions. Interesting. How severely is the number of roleplayers shrinking. And how many of roleplayers is acutally out there today. I only know the old WotC survey, which is a lot out-of-date today. I've read a lot about vanishing hobby stores (form Ryan Dancey) and I must admit, that this effect I see here in my country as well. From about 10 of hobby stores in Prague 3 are left today. Not good for a capital city with 1,3 million inhabitants. But on the other hand I don't feel shrinkage of roleplayers rather the opposite. But it is possible, that Central Europe was not yet hit by the RPG market trauma. Is there really a death spiral of d20? I am surprised, because I would expect the opposite. Once the market evolution of the market selected the strong publisher (survival of the fittest) I would expect the blossom of the few chosen ones. And I expect the Green Ronin to be one of them. Is D&D and WotC stagnating? In what sense? In the amount of players, or solded products of both? What are the reasons? This might be severe problem later because D&D is entry-level game par excellence and its health is desperately needed by anyone else on the market. If D&D is ill the RPG market is ill as well. Because the new players usually coming through the D&D to other products are not comming this time. I also have a feeling, that this effect of D&D waves of success (and overall RPG market growth) and failure and drastical impacts on the market are cyclical and we are right now on the descent. What is you opinion as a publisher and gamer? And what the others think about it? [/QUOTE]

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