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<blockquote data-quote="El Mahdi" data-source="post: 5374798" data-attributes="member: 59506">Yes, you can likely find players more easily with a hobby that is healthy and robust (read, has a large pool of participating hobbyists), but I don't believe it depends upon the state of the hobby.&nbsp; I've gamed with as many people that I brought into the hobby (that had never previously played), as people that were already in the hobby or were brought in by Industry advertising (of which I can't imagine there are really very many).&nbsp; Most RPG advertising is aimed at people who already play RPG's, not people who don't or never have.&nbsp; I believe that bringing in new players has a lot more to do with how well individual players and DM's sell them on the game (and then treat them once thay get them to play), than how robust or healthy the industry or hobby is.&nbsp;As for ENWorld, I really don't know if the state of the Industry would affect it or not.&nbsp; But, I would think that as long as people are playing RPG's (whether there's an Industry for it or not), then the hobby itself is doing just fine.&nbsp; And as long as there are people playing RPG's (whether they are being printed or not), then people will want to talk about RPG's.&nbsp; That's all ENWorld really is, a place where people who like RPG's come to talk about RPG's.&nbsp; Granted there is the &quot;News&quot; aspect of the site, but even if there was no Industry News, I think ENWorld would be okay.&nbsp; Perhaps smaller, but I believe ENWorld would still be here.&nbsp;<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="El Mahdi, post: 5374798, member: 59506"] Yes, you can likely find players [I]more easily[/I] with a hobby that is healthy and robust (read, has a large pool of participating hobbyists), but I don't believe it [I]depends[/I] upon the state of the hobby. I've gamed with as many people that I brought into the hobby (that had never previously played), as people that were already in the hobby or were brought in by Industry advertising (of which I can't imagine there are really very many). Most RPG advertising is aimed at people who already play RPG's, not people who don't or never have. I believe that bringing in new players has a lot more to do with how well individual players and DM's sell them on the game (and then treat them once thay get them to play), than how robust or healthy the industry or hobby is. As for ENWorld, I really don't[I] know[/I] if the state of the Industry would affect it or not. But, I would think that as long as people are playing RPG's (whether there's an Industry for it or not), then the hobby itself is doing just fine. And as long as there are people playing RPG's (whether they are being printed or not), then people will want to talk about RPG's. That's all ENWorld really is, a place where people who like RPG's come to talk about RPG's. Granted there is the "News" aspect of the site, but even if there was no Industry News, I think ENWorld would be okay. Perhaps smaller, but I believe ENWorld would still be here. :) [/QUOTE]

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