the rpg “industry”

from my secret twitter:

frankly i’m not concerned about the indie rpg “industry” bc i don’t wanna prop up a whole new market just bc wotc sucks ass

like i’ll buy cool things from other hobbyists who are more creative than i am, but i don’t support a “cottage industry”

you know about how d&d’s popularity doesn’t prop up other games? same is true the other way around: non-d&d games are going to exist regardless of whether or not there’s a group of people asserting themselves as “the industry”

the hobby exists between the people who play and keep it alive, and people who commercialize the hobby are not the ones keeping it alive

(not a critique of selling things or w/e, but of asserting the hobby as a marketplace contra wotc or in general)