Mike Shea

My friend Chris bought one.

So I thought that that was pretty interesting.

So I brought up the topic on a thread on EN World.

I'm like, what does a successful RPG look like?

And what was really interesting to me about it is how wide the range was of how people define success.

There was one person who defined success as a successful RPG is only one that dethrones D&D.

That, you know, an RPG can only be successful.

A truly successful RPG is one that dethrones D&D.

And I was like, okay, well, that means there has never been a successful RPG other than D&D, right?

D&D is the only successful RPG and no other RPG in the past 50 years.

The thousands of RPGs that come out, all the ones I got in mind, they don't count.

But I was like, well, he gets to make that choice or they get to make their choice, right?

They get to make the choice of whether or not that's how they define success.

I don't define it that way.

I wouldn't expect a lot of people would define it that way.

But we know what the cap is.

The cap is there's only one, and you have to be part of a multibillion-dollar company in order to have success.

And then I had other people where it was the opposite.

It was basically the same.

The definition of what makes an RPG successful was the same as what's the threshold for an RPG being dead or not, which is do you have a copy?