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<blockquote data-quote="Kannik" data-source="post: 9632979" data-attributes="member: 984">I concur that &quot;truly dead&quot; might be an unlikely scenario these days.&nbsp; Using an RPG-adjacent game, I'm part of a semi-active community of Renegade Legion fans, though the game in its heyday was never super large (especially to it's Battletech sibling) and it's been out of print for 30+ years.&nbsp; Big numbers?&nbsp; Certainly not.&nbsp; Growing?&nbsp; There are a handful of people who join the group every year who didn't play the game at the time of it's publication, though the net number is likely still negative.&nbsp; So it's not dead-dead, and there'll still be its fans out there for a long time.&nbsp; But functionally dead?&nbsp; Yeah, I'd say it's still safe to call it that. Always the possibility of a resurrection of course!&nbsp; But unlikely.Now something like Cortex Prime is an interesting middle ground -- it's still in publication, both as it's toolbox and an RPG based on an external property, and there's supposedly more material coming.&nbsp; But it's mindshare is still very low.&nbsp; It's alive, but not very vibrant/vigorous.&nbsp;&nbsp; (Not YET, anyway!)To which I like this analogy, especially as a deity can revive and come back into status if they accrue more followers.&nbsp; So too with RPGs, growing from heroes to demi- to lesser- to intermediate- to greater- as their mindshare waxes and wanes.&nbsp;&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="Kannik, post: 9632979, member: 984"] I concur that "truly dead" might be an unlikely scenario these days. Using an RPG-adjacent game, I'm part of a semi-active community of Renegade Legion fans, though the game in its heyday was never super large (especially to it's Battletech sibling) and it's been out of print for 30+ years. Big numbers? Certainly not. Growing? There are a handful of people who join the group every year who didn't play the game at the time of it's publication, though the net number is likely still negative. So it's not dead-dead, and there'll still be its fans out there for a long time. But functionally dead? Yeah, I'd say it's still safe to call it that. Always the possibility of a resurrection of course! But unlikely. Now something like Cortex Prime is an interesting middle ground -- it's still in publication, both as it's toolbox and an RPG based on an external property, and there's supposedly more material coming. But it's mindshare is still very low. It's alive, but not very vibrant/vigorous. (Not YET, anyway!) To which I like this analogy, especially as a deity can revive and come back into status if they accrue more followers. So too with RPGs, growing from heroes to demi- to lesser- to intermediate- to greater- as their mindshare waxes and wanes. :) [/QUOTE]

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