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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Harry" data-source="post: 2598054" data-attributes="member: 5468">WotC/Hasbro has massive market access.  If WotC went down, maybe White Wolf could cover much (but not nearly all) of the same market.  WotC/Hasbro also has the capital to invest in large print runs that will sell over time, at a level that would drive a smaller game publisher out of business before the full profit could be attained.Even when Wizards was making its crappiest stuff, and when others are making their best, WotC was still by far the largest kid in the schoolyard.What would the next publisher do?  Keep the old material in print?  While there is (I expect) some constant level of sales for the core books, most of the profit is realized soon after publication.  I would guess at either the old edition repackaged in as cheap as form as possible, or a new edition to infuse cash into the company.I cannot envision any company able to maintain the D&D brand at anything like the level of visibility that it has right now.There are strong economic competitive advantages to driving that do not exist in a purely leisure activity like RPG's.I don't think that the hobby would end, but I think that it would shrink dramatically at the lower level of support and production another company would be able to give it.</blockquote>