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<blockquote data-quote="jmucchiello" data-source="post: 5375519" data-attributes="member: 813">Why would Gen Con go away? Gen Con started with a group of wargamers playing 10 hour board games together over a weekend of sleeplessness. Those wargamers still show up to Gen Con. The board game and CCG rooms at Gen Con are always well attended. If all the RPG events disappeared, sure it would be smaller but it would still be a well-attended gaming convention.Does that include dragonfoot, a website devoted to games 20-30 years out of print? Does that in rpggeek.com which is part of boardgamegeek.com (and videogamegeek.com)? Why are these places going to disappear? Poll and poll here shows that most people started playing D&amp;D without knowing what it was or seeing an advertisement. They learned about it though word of mouth. Most people join the hobby and play for months without ever buying the books. The &quot;Industry&quot; has never been good at drawing people in.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jmucchiello, post: 5375519, member: 813"] Why would Gen Con go away? Gen Con started with a group of wargamers playing 10 hour board games together over a weekend of sleeplessness. Those wargamers still show up to Gen Con. The board game and CCG rooms at Gen Con are always well attended. If all the RPG events disappeared, sure it would be smaller but it would still be a well-attended gaming convention. Does that include dragonfoot, a website devoted to games 20-30 years out of print? Does that in rpggeek.com which is part of boardgamegeek.com (and videogamegeek.com)? Why are these places going to disappear? Poll and poll here shows that most people started playing D&D without knowing what it was or seeing an advertisement. They learned about it though word of mouth. Most people join the hobby and play for months without ever buying the books. The "Industry" has never been good at drawing people in. [/QUOTE]

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