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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eben" data-source="post: 493419" data-attributes="member: 1379">Phew, what a read! This somehow reminds me of a column Monte Cook wrote a while ago. In there he stated that for RGS's to appeal to a bigger crowd they would no longer appeal to the the original crowd, since ours is already a niche hobby as Sammael99 stated. (He made an analogy with doll-collecting I think.)And this seems to be the frustration of JW. I don't believe anybody is waiting for the next generation of RPG's. The trouble is in seeing games as an artistic medium for the people who play them. They aren't: they're entertainment. Granted, they test our creativety more than Monopoly or Sonic the Hedgehog, but finally, I want to have fun while gaming and rpg's as they are provide me with the medium I need.If you do see your rpg's as a means for artistic expression, that's great, but those are different games than those I play and than those most of us play. And the trouble for a games designer is that he is actully catering for a niche within a niche. So I think JW has done the courageous thing and quit while he was  ahead instead of waiting to risk financial damage. Especially since I read in those interviews that his own creativity is what matters to him. Closing down hogshead shouldn't stop his creativity, rather the opposite.</blockquote>