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<blockquote data-quote="Ycore Rixle" data-source="post: 4746000" data-attributes="member: 675">Regarding Ryan's Death SpiralHybridization is great, and I'd love to see it. But I'm not convinced it's necessary to the survival of the hobby. People are still making money publishing poetry books, for goodness' sake. Video didn't kill the radio star. Horses are still around. CRPGs have been around forever (that is, for the entire lifetime of many people currently playing RPGs) and yet people still play RPGs.And well they should. Tabletop is awesome, tons of fun, and very different from online.Will the tabletop rpg hobby change? I'm sure it will. It has in the last 35 years. It could get serious and grow up literarily, the way science fiction did in the mid-20th century. It could go hybrid, maybe with miniatures having chips in them that communicate with other miniatures to make sounds, give rule tips, scream when the Huge mini comes near, who knows what.But I don't think the industry is in a death spiral any more than anything else is. Change and adaptation are always necessary.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ycore Rixle, post: 4746000, member: 675"] [b]Regarding Ryan's Death Spiral[/b] Hybridization is great, and I'd love to see it. But I'm not convinced it's necessary to the survival of the hobby. People are still making money publishing [I]poetry books[/I], for goodness' sake. Video didn't kill the radio star. Horses are still around. CRPGs have been around forever (that is, for the entire lifetime of many people currently playing RPGs) and yet people still play RPGs. And well they should. Tabletop is awesome, tons of fun, and very different from online. Will the tabletop rpg hobby change? I'm sure it will. It has in the last 35 years. It could get serious and grow up literarily, the way science fiction did in the mid-20th century. It could go hybrid, maybe with miniatures having chips in them that communicate with other miniatures to make sounds, give rule tips, scream when the Huge mini comes near, who knows what. But I don't think the industry is in a death spiral any more than anything else is. Change and adaptation are always necessary. [/QUOTE]

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