Ed Chauvin IV wrote:
> Ben Finney wrote:
>>tussock wrote:
>>> Ed Chauvin IV wrote:
>>> > How did the RPG hobby ever survive for 30 years before WotC and the
>>> > OGL in the first place?
>>>
>>> The vast majority of them, including the market leader TSR,
>>> *didn't* survive. Really, as of y2k, pre OGL, how many RPG companies
>>> where still pubishing for profit? Two?
>>
>>Ed Chauvin asked about "the RPG hobby", which is not equal to "the
>>for-profit RPG industry".
>
> Thank you.
I'd suggest the number of folk making money off RPGs is strongly
influenced by the number of people participating in the hobby on a
regular basis.
I mean, I would've thought it obvious, but there it is anyway. IME,
AIUI, and from the very few publised studies, tabletop RPGing, stores
that provided for it, and RPG businesses were all in very serious decline
in the late 90's. 3e and the OGL played a big part in turning that
around, and not just for d20 games but for the hobby as a whole.
I may be completely mistaken, of course.
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tussock
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