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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9785101" data-attributes="member: 18">Yeah I was like "But but but...". They were 100% right if they said that! D&D was within inches of at least belonging to a bankrupt company and probably ceasing production for at least a while.WotC buying it and doing what they did was, and I really hate to say this, almost an act of charity. Certainly as much an act of fan-ish-ness as a "smart business decision". Hell, the entire reason the OGL existed was specifically to prevent D&D "falling into shadow" as it were, or at least to enable it to come back as Gandalf the White. And Ryan Whatsit explained that at the time.I have little doubt WotC-published official D&D will suffer some kind of collapse in the next 20 years. Probably sooner! But TTRPGs are unlikely to vanish (especially as computers advance less and less each year, not more and more), given that people who are playing them now at 25 or 35 will be 45 or 55 LIKE MOST OF THIS BOARD!!! And the D&D brand will probably come back too, because it'll be valuable for a long-ass time unless WotC really changes tack and completely runs it into the ground (and nothing they're currently doing suggests that kind of true "brand destruction" is on the cards - WotC may be Sideshow Bob endlessly stepping on rakes, but that's very different from Sideshow Bob, y'know, dying*).* = I stopped watching The Simpsons in the '00s. I have no idea if they killed him off or anything.</blockquote>

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