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<blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 9639891" data-attributes="member: 725">Depends on the perspective...From a publisher's view, it's dead when they don't sell anything from it anymore, not enough to matter, or just don't produce anything anymore for it. Example, Green Ronin still sells their 3.5e pdfs, but I suspect not enough to matter... So they would consider their 3.5e line 'dead'. But certain parts of that line were remade for 5e... So 'dead' RPGs can be resurrected! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />From a gamer's/fan's perspective when they have all the books, the game is 'dead' when they can't find anyone that wants to play it.From a gamer's perspective when the books aren't available anymore, not even as pdfs (legally). Something like Babylon 5 by Mongoose would be considered pretty darned dead!From most other gamer's perspective, a game is 'dead' when it suits them...Personally, a RPG is like Schrödinger's cat, only when you open the door to actually play it will you find out...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cergorach, post: 9639891, member: 725"] Depends on the perspective... From a publisher's view, it's dead when they don't sell anything from it anymore, not enough to matter, or just don't produce anything anymore for it. Example, Green Ronin still sells their 3.5e pdfs, but I suspect not enough to matter... So they would consider their 3.5e line 'dead'. But certain parts of that line were remade for 5e... So 'dead' RPGs can be resurrected! ;) From a gamer's/fan's perspective when they have all the books, the game is 'dead' when they can't find anyone that wants to play it. From a gamer's perspective when the books aren't available anymore, not even as pdfs (legally). Something like Babylon 5 by Mongoose would be considered pretty darned dead! From most other gamer's perspective, a game is 'dead' when it suits them... Personally, a RPG is like Schrödinger's cat, only when you open the door to actually play it will you find out... [/QUOTE]

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