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<blockquote data-quote="Mark Chance" data-source="post: 5025427" data-attributes="member: 2795">But is that anything new? Because I suffer from delusions of adequacy, I've always pictured me as being something of a rarity. I fell into gaming pretty much on accident and largely on my own. No one introduced me to RPGs. In the 6th grade, operating under the Finders Keepers Rule, I found the Basic D&amp;D blue book and a hand-drawn, graph-paper map in a desk as school. A friend and I got together after school and tried to figure out what it all meant.RPGs aren't a casual game. If I'm on the way to a dinner party and need to bring a game with me, it's not going to be an RPG. It's much more likely that we'll end up playing canasta or spades. If I'm eating with a brainier bunch, we might break out the Scrabble board.That said, there are new gamers out there. My son Christopher has been granted Probationary Junior Man Status and now gets to play on Man Day. We also have a new adult member who's played less 3.5 than Christopher.As far as sales being bad, I imagine that's largely due to two factors (at least in the U.S.): the double-digit unemployment rate coupled with a lot of what's being produced not being worth the cover price.IOW, it's about priorities. I'm underemployed right now. I've been unemployed three times in the past two or so years. I'm trying to start up my own small-time PDF publisher (see link in sig). My bathroom needs remodeling. I've got to wash the algae off the stucco outside the house.Shelling out money for luxury items like new RPG products is low on my list of things to do.So, like BOZ said, I soldier on, and get by with what I have. <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="Mark Chance, post: 5025427, member: 2795"] But is that anything new? Because I suffer from delusions of adequacy, I've always pictured me as being something of a rarity. I fell into gaming pretty much on accident and largely on my own. No one introduced me to RPGs. In the 6th grade, operating under the Finders Keepers Rule, I found the Basic D&D blue book and a hand-drawn, graph-paper map in a desk as school. A friend and I got together after school and tried to figure out what it all meant. RPGs aren't a casual game. If I'm on the way to a dinner party and need to bring a game with me, it's not going to be an RPG. It's much more likely that we'll end up playing canasta or spades. If I'm eating with a brainier bunch, we might break out the Scrabble board. That said, there are new gamers out there. My son Christopher has been granted Probationary Junior Man Status and now gets to play on Man Day. We also have a new adult member who's played less 3.5 than Christopher. As far as sales being bad, I imagine that's largely due to two factors (at least in the U.S.): the double-digit unemployment rate coupled with a lot of what's being produced not being worth the cover price. IOW, it's about priorities. I'm underemployed right now. I've been unemployed three times in the past two or so years. I'm trying to start up my own small-time PDF publisher (see link in sig). My bathroom needs remodeling. I've got to wash the algae off the stucco outside the house. Shelling out money for luxury items like new RPG products is low on my list of things to do. So, like BOZ said, I soldier on, and get by with what I have. :) [/QUOTE]

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