Re:The wild economy of tabletop board game funding
by michaelt on Monday July 06, 2020 @03:37AM
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For purposes of an industry being 'booming' I'd say those are computer games, rather than tabletop games.
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Re:The wild economy of tabletop board game funding
by C1sc0cat on Monday July 06, 2020 @04:20AM
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I beg to differ - RPG's played via roll2d0 Fantasy ground etc are not different to those played FTF.
Personally I don't like TTRPG as DnD precedes Computer based RPG's by decades and also TTRPG makes me think or more wargaming derived skirmish games 7tv or even Force on Force and so on.
Re:The wild economy of tabletop board game funding
by philipov on Monday July 06, 2020 @05:17AM
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An industry is booming if you're buying their products, and people use the same books to play D&D whether they're doing it in person or using a virtual tabletop. I admit this is more true for roleplaying games than board games, because you don't really need to buy a board game to play it on Tabletop Simulator, but Roll20 definitely sells a lot of WotC products, with their own value add (virtual tabletop integration) on top of it bumping the price a bit. Which arbitrary point you choose to start considering them to be computer games isn't important when it's the same industry either way.