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<blockquote data-quote="Thornir Alekeg" data-source="post: 4121345" data-attributes="member: 15651">That is only true if you need more options.&nbsp; If you already have a solid group of players, do you need more?&nbsp; On top of that, there is nothing preventing you from teaching others to play the game, whether it is supported by an industry or not.&nbsp; WotC didn't teach my wife to play D&amp;D, I did using the books I already owned.&nbsp; &nbsp;While I think you are correct about the clout WotC has, the industry will continue without them.&nbsp; If WotC were to cease to exist I wouldn't suddenly lose the urge to play RPGs, so as long as there is somebody providing products I like, it doesn't matter to me whether they have a staff of 50 producing 2 books per year or 500 producing 20, I'll take what I like and can get.&nbsp;I never bought a single issue of Dungeon and I gave up my Dragon subsrciption a very long time ago so I don't count in that 25k.&nbsp; Regardless, I know of Paizo, have used some of their GameMastery items and will be looking at Pathfinder as it develops. As for that 25 million D&amp;D players; I don't think that is an indication of the current &quot;D&amp;D crowd.&quot;&nbsp; That is an estimate as to how many people have played D&amp;D, not the number of current and active players who are likely to be buying official D&amp;D products.&nbsp; I really doubt WotC is planning a print run of 25 million copies of the 4e PHB.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Thornir Alekeg, post: 4121345, member: 15651"] That is only true if you need more options. If you already have a solid group of players, do you need more? On top of that, there is nothing preventing you from teaching others to play the game, whether it is supported by an industry or not. WotC didn't teach my wife to play D&D, I did using the books I already owned. While I think you are correct about the clout WotC has, the industry will continue without them. If WotC were to cease to exist I wouldn't suddenly lose the urge to play RPGs, so as long as there is somebody providing products I like, it doesn't matter to me whether they have a staff of 50 producing 2 books per year or 500 producing 20, I'll take what I like and can get. I never bought a single issue of Dungeon and I gave up my Dragon subsrciption a very long time ago so I don't count in that 25k. Regardless, I know of Paizo, have used some of their GameMastery items and will be looking at Pathfinder as it develops. As for that 25 million D&D players; I don't think that is an indication of the current "D&D crowd." That is an estimate as to how many people have played D&D, not the number of current and active players who are likely to be buying official D&D products. I really doubt WotC is planning a print run of 25 million copies of the 4e PHB. [/QUOTE]

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