[	Tags	|	gaming, rpgs	]
[	Current Location	|	The cube	]
[	Current Mood	|	contemplative	]

The D&D article making the rounds the last few days (which showed up lots of places via AP) here:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23903817/

Prompted by this blog post by maliszew on his grognardia blog:  

http://grognardia.blogspot.com/2008/04/d-in-news.html

Here’s the part of the post I totally agree with and am piggybacking off of:

“I simply think that what we are seeing is that the last vestiges of D&D's faddishness are finally falling away and the game is revealed for what it always was: a peculiar little hobby activity for a small group of peculiar people.

Again, I say this without contempt. In fact, I rather look forward to the days when roleplaying is comfortable being what it really is. Those days of tremendous success were oddities. The hobby has been coasting on momentum from the mid-80s and inertia is finally exerting its inexorable pull. My own kids will probably be roleplayers, but only because their father is. They might in turn spread this hobby to some of their friends, but the odds are not great. Like model railroad building or playing bridge (a fad of its own -- the D&D of the 1950s), roleplaying games will eventually become a marginal activity that a small portion of the public finds joy in. For myself, as one of the people who finds such joy, I see no problem in this future. My only concern is that, in their quest to regain something that can never be regained, D&D's current custodians will sell the game's soul and history for a bunch of magic beans.”

Rpgs are a hobby.  You can still identify highly as a roleplayer (I do), but the hobby doesn’t really have to be any bigger than it already is.  However, I’m not sure most roleplayers see it that way.

Due to the fact that I kept finding colors that didn't work together the faux-rpgnet lj style is over.  I may not settle for a few days - be ye warned.