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<blockquote data-quote="Callista" data-source="post: 5373939" data-attributes="member: 98004">D&amp;D is gaining new players all the time. As people get too busy or move away from their gaming groups, those books stay in their closets, and the new players buy books of their own. Even if they stop playing eventually, most people will introduce others to D&amp;D before they lose interest; and in many cases those people will be somewhat younger. In my group, I'm a college senior teaching freshmen how to play, and will probably be a graduate student teaching undergrads before long.It's actually very much like Monopoly that way. People are getting into it because their parents, friends, or older siblings introduced them; and then they play for a while, and either stay in, buying more books, or introduce others before they get too busy or get into something else.Tabletop RPGs are here to stay; but whether D&amp;D stays in the game over the next generation may depend on whether or not they can adjust their business model from the single-generation explosive growth phenomenon you see with many CCGs, to the multigenerational setup you get with more classic, long-lived games--a situation that actually depends partly on the constancy of the rules from year to year. If they can't adjust, they'll end up being left by the wayside, replaced by systems that can.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Callista, post: 5373939, member: 98004"] D&D is gaining new players all the time. As people get too busy or move away from their gaming groups, those books stay in their closets, and the new players buy books of their own. Even if they stop playing eventually, most people will introduce others to D&D before they lose interest; and in many cases those people will be somewhat younger. In my group, I'm a college senior teaching freshmen how to play, and will probably be a graduate student teaching undergrads before long. It's actually very much like Monopoly that way. People are getting into it because their parents, friends, or older siblings introduced them; and then they play for a while, and either stay in, buying more books, or introduce others before they get too busy or get into something else. Tabletop RPGs are here to stay; but whether D&D stays in the game over the next generation may depend on whether or not they can adjust their business model from the single-generation explosive growth phenomenon you see with many CCGs, to the multigenerational setup you get with more classic, long-lived games--a situation that actually depends partly on the constancy of the rules from year to year. If they can't adjust, they'll end up being left by the wayside, replaced by systems that can. [/QUOTE]

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