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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MerricB" data-source="post: 5359875" data-attributes="member: 3586">Do we need a maiden to catch you? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I've managed to stay out of MMOs, and BattleTech is more a boardgame than a miniature wargame, but I must plead guilty to having extensive TCG, Boardgame and RPG collections... and playing all of them a lot.Personally, I think there's no doubt that the economy is causing a lot of grief in the hobby game business. As to the state of RPGs at present: I'm not in a position where much of any sort of meaningful data is coming in. I have a suspicion that the current state of D&D 4E is not what Wizards would really like it to be. Apart from the problems caused by splitting the market with the release, the aggressive release schedule of the more popular books leaves them in the state where most new books will be third tier in the realms of popularity. This is all complicated by D&D Essentials, which is meant to get a lot of new players into D&D, but has been confused by a haphazard release schedule. I was curious to see what new D&D releases came out in Q3 2010. Here's the list:Late September:* Master Tiles: Dungeon* Rules Compendium* Heroes of the Fallen Lands* Lords of Madness (minis)Early September:* Red BoxEnd August:* Castle Ravenloft boardgame (<a href="http://www.gamesalute.com/?p=4038" target="_blank">now sold out -as of Oct 8</a>)Mid August* Dark Sun Creature Catalog* Marauders of the Dune Sea* Psionic Power* Dark Sun Campaign SettingMid July* Demonicon* HS2 Orcs of Stonefang Pass* Vor Rukoth* Tomb of Horrors(Of note: Marauders of the Dune Sea is *still* not available in Australia).Cheers!</blockquote>

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