by Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Feb 12, 2008 at 11:32 AM
Sea Wasp <seawaspObvious@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> Ben Finney wrote:
> > Ed Chauvin IV <edcfour@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> >>How did the RPG hobby ever survive for 30 years before WotC and
> >>the OGL in the first place?
> >
> > The absence of networked computer games in people's homes.
>
> Call me when one of those actually has a decent resemblance to a
> real RPG.
The issue of "do such networked computer games appeal to people who
already know that they like RPGs" is far less relevant to Ed Chauvin's
question than "do such networked computer games capture the interest,
attention, time, and money of new people who would otherwise discover
RPGs".
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Ben Finney
