I think I’m going to make a collection of people within the “industry” talking about “the industry”. Here’s TS Luikart:
- Role-playing games are never going away, despite our omni-present Chicken Littles. I’ve been hearing about the “death” of my beloved hobby for 28 years. However, the market has changed and many companies have been slow to react or look for new opportunities. MMORGs provide an immediate visceral “hack & slash” kick for the casual gamer and they have unquestionably diluted the gaming dollar. If companies wish to continue to produce pen and paper RPGs they need to play to their strengths, so yes, I do think the “industry” as it presently exists will be all but gone in a few years unless they get their act together…
The majority of RPGs are still being presented exactly as they were three decades ago. Make no mistake, WFRP 2nd is an awesome product and I’m very proud to have been a part of it – but it’s still a book full of rules, very similar (though far more pretty!) to those books of yesteryear…
Amen! Brother Luikart also has great taste in literature, at least according to Shreyas.