what if another role playing game had DnDs cultural Impact?

[malloyd]

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.

I don't think that's true. Sales are of course somewhat tied to the economy, so they may be down some from their peak, but that probably would have been in the 00s. And it's always been a niche hobby. Estimates for the total number of people to have *ever* bought or played a table-top RPG tend to be around 25 million. That would be excellent for a single computer game (successful titles tend to sell 8-10 million copies, though Minecraft still might have it beat) or MMORPG (World of Warcraft peaked at about 12 million paying customers) but for 40 years worth....