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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ThirdWizard" data-source="post: 2600281" data-attributes="member: 12037">Lets not kid ourselves here. We got lucky. Not many companies out there both have the capital to both purchase the D&D license and the ability to maintain a decent level of quality. WotC was in the right place at the right time, and had they not been, D&D might be a line of novels and video games, with no PnP form in print right now.There is no rule that just because one company does poorly, another company will pick up the slack. I wish there were, but if WotC failed right now I don't know who would pick it up. I don't think they're going to fail. They're a great company with a long life ahead of them as far as I can tell. I don't think there's a line of companies as good as them sitting and waiting to pick up the slack should they find the opportunity, though.Would that be the end of PnP? Would it be the end of D&D? No. People still play out of print games. OD&D isn't dead. 1st Edition D&D isn't dead. 2nd Edition D&D isn't dead. And, 3rd Edition D&D isn't dead. But, the vast majority of people would move on to other games, perhaps Vampire <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> that is being produced, because most likely we wouldn't be seeing anything new for quite a while.</blockquote>