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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 8874678" data-attributes="member: 6796661"><p>I'm not going to play the show-your-sources game, but anecdotally, I find this to be clearly untrue. 5e brought be back into gaming in 2014 and although I do not play non-5e games often, I have purchased at least eight different systems since 2014 and I have spend quite a bit of money on third-party 5e content. I have also spend a lot on software and physical game aids, very little of that put out by WotC. And that was during a period of incredible DnD growth. Would I buy even more TPP content if WotC went bye-bye? Most probably. But the fact that DnD has done so well certainly got me back into the hobby and led to me reading discussion boards, going to conventions and local gaming stores, and finding other games to try. What other TTRPG has a company like Hasbro and its marketing power behind it?  If DnD were to go away, existing players might buy a lot more, but I think that fewer new people would be attracted to the hobby and it would sink back into being an obscure niche hobby.</p></blockquote><p></p>