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Originally Posted by copeab
I think it's safe to say that the real competition for D&D is not Pathfinder, Hero, GURPS, World of Darkness, etc., but World of Warcraft, Angry Birds, the Wii, Call of Duty, etc.
Pen and paper games are losing to electronic games and, frankly, I'm not sure how the trend can be reversed.
(much how paper books are losing ground to audio and electronic books).
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Yeah, you're essentially right. WotC has bungled in its attempts to stem the tide by merging the hobbies with it's "electronic table-top" (DDE? DDI?) and 4e had no computer titles release for it at all, the first time a D&D ruleset hasn't had a corresponding CRPG since
1988. Think about that one for a second...!
Honestly I think we (as RPers) are at this point where chit-and-hex and Napoleonics were in 1973 when rumors started to abound about this thing coming out of G&K/Tactical Studies Rules ...