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<blockquote data-quote="Alcamtar" data-source="post: 748994" data-attributes="member: 3842">I think the D&amp;D name would live on, but it might not amount to much. Possibly different editions would get sold to different customers, and sold older editions would see print again.Most likely, I think we'd have something like 3E, only it would be called &quot;Ars Magica v6&quot; or &quot;SenZar II&quot; or something. If D&amp;D died, another fantasy game would fill the vacuum. Actually D&amp;D did die, and a new fantasy game (d20) was written to replace it, and also took its name.I think the resurgence in RPGs would have happened anyway; I strongly suspect it is a cyclic business, and has more to do with the economy and societal/audience changes than d20.The SRD would have happened anyway because &quot;open source&quot; is a broad movement, but instead of being tied to d20 we'd have multiple competing SRDs.As for D&amp;D I don't think there'd be much change. D&amp;D is dead and would have been dead either way. To me 3E is a new game in the tradition of D&amp;D, but new games are a dime a dozen. 3E succeeded primarily because it had the D&amp;D name.At least that's my opinion. <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=":-)" />Mike</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Alcamtar, post: 748994, member: 3842"] I think the D&D name would live on, but it might not amount to much. Possibly different editions would get sold to different customers, and sold older editions would see print again. Most likely, I think we'd have something like 3E, only it would be called "Ars Magica v6" or "SenZar II" or something. If D&D died, another fantasy game would fill the vacuum. Actually D&D did die, and a new fantasy game (d20) was written to replace it, and also took its name. I think the resurgence in RPGs would have happened anyway; I strongly suspect it is a cyclic business, and has more to do with the economy and societal/audience changes than d20. The SRD would have happened anyway because "open source" is a broad movement, but instead of being tied to d20 we'd have multiple competing SRDs. As for D&D I don't think there'd be much change. D&D is dead and would have been dead either way. To me 3E is a new game in the tradition of D&D, but new games are a dime a dozen. 3E succeeded primarily because it had the D&D name. At least that's my opinion. :-) Mike [/QUOTE]

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