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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DragonLancer" data-source="post: 3299087" data-attributes="member: 11868">I showed the owner of my FLGS this threadt this afternoon and we had a lengthy and heated (in a good way) discussion about it and the subject at hand. He has had many years experience in the gaming community and agrees with the boardgame style NEXT BIG THING but only where new players are concerned. His opinion is that D&D and other RPG's just arn't visual enough to draw non-gamers in. A group of players sitting round a table talking and rolling dice is not what draws people in. Seeing players do the above but also with map plans and miniatures is his view of how RPG's will draw new players in and away from consoles and the TV.I can see that but then the way I see it, if you use that to draw new players in then thats what they come to expect, and RPG's will become boardgame's rather than roleplaying games.Overall, it's not going to be an easy decision for the gaming industry to find the next big thing and draw in a new generation of players.</blockquote>