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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9597003" data-attributes="member: 18">I think the thing is, even if it does, WotC doesn't supply so much official, rules-bearing material that their buying power would be hugely different. There's a pretty low limit to how much you can spend on official rulebooks, including setting books, probably including adventures, per year. Because WotC just don't put out that much.It's not like MtG, where you could easily blows thousands chasing certain cards or just because you're a lunatic. With D&D you just buy all the books and then you have all the books and that's it.But the excess purchasing power does often go somewhere - 3PPs/Kickstarter!At the very beginning maybe Gygax etc. used it self-laudatorily, but that man thought genocidaires were cool, soo... But by the early '00s? The opposite. There was more of a sneer on it. As illustrated in the discussion in this thread, people (including me, sorry), said grog specifically to cast some kind of aspersion on the person (i.e. moaning for the sake of moaning), where now it's more like "you're just another old fogey like me, remember that!" without much of a sneer.Younger people don't generally use it at all. Not because they're nicer - just because it's not part of their vocab much.</blockquote>