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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Incenjucar" data-source="post: 1738399" data-attributes="member: 6182">Playing pretend predates h. sapiens sapiens.An industry to supply it has existed for at least as long as people wanted to wear leather collars when they played BDSM bedroom games, and at least as lon as people traded some flint-tipped arrows for a costume of a giant bird to dance around in circles in when they told their people's stories.The warfare-based version has existed since people started making little maps of battlefields and moved them around to try and figure out how the opponent would attack.The modern, fantasy-based version of the industry has survived psychotic preachers and bad-mothers-in-denial, television's ever-lasting grasp on humanity, video games, and easy-access porn.I seriously, seriously doubt the roleplaying industry is at any risk.  At least as long as people still like to be spanked while wearing a leather zipper-covered hood that probably cost them more than fifty bucks, as long as children still crash their toys together, or make Barbie try to 'straighten out' her poor eunich buddy Ken, or run around on the lawn going 'Brrrooom!' trying to be airplanes, or cats chase a bit of string pretending its a rodent or some other tasty treat.Until we lose the kinky folk, the children, and the kitties, I think the industry will survive.</blockquote>