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Originally Posted by Johan Larson
Right now table-top role playing is a small niche hobby. It was a pretty big thing back in the 80s with D&D, but it has shrunk dramatically since then. It also had some lasting cultural influence through its effect on computer RPGs; WoW owes D&D a hefty debt.
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there was no glut of players in the 80's. The ratio players:population seems to have stayed the same, but are now divided amongst many more games. Thus players per game system are down (as there are now over 4000 RPGs that have been released, and half a dozen or more per month get released).