I think it's also relevant to ask in what format? Many of the games popular now could theoretically still be around in 20 years time, but perhaps in a different media. Who knows?

Edit: Oops, just noticed the 'in print' comment in the OP. Ignore the above!

Quote from: SeanchaiNot Paranoia. It stikes me as culture specific.

Seanchai

How so?  It's an interesting comment, and I don't think I understand it.

Quote from: jrientsMy friend Stuart is a fan and has played at least one campaign.  He has a self-professed love/hate relationship with the game.  He says the real fault of Exalted is that it tries to do too much.  Super intricate setting plus byzantine mechanics equals formula for disaster, as it were.

When I said that, I was specifically talking about game mechanics. Exalted tries to encourage tactical combat choices through a complicated CCG-inspired ruleset while simultaneously evoking a fast and loose feel that emphasizes coolness over mechanical effects. Something has to give. You (or at least White Wolf) can't do both of these things well at the same time.

-Stuart

Neitherworld Stories - my gaming blog

Quote from: BalbinusHow so?  It's an interesting comment, and I don't think I understand it.

Well, it seems to me that Paranoia is really a bunch of jokes/commentary about society. That society, and resulting context, may not be around too much longer and so the jokes/commentary may not be as apt.

For example, computers are being integrated into most facets of daily life. While that might seem to be just like Paranoia, I think what Paranoia's commentary is really about is the sense of intrusion of computers into our daily lives. But now that computers are becoming ubiquitous and accepted - hell, even anticipated and useful - that sense of intrusion is going away. And so the joke/commentary becomes...boring. Not funny.

Seanchai

The year is 2027 . . .

Just released . . .

D&D version 27.5.1
GURPS "Turn of the century roleplaying. Harken back to the good old days of jump drives and IPods!"
Cuberpunk 2027 - a modern story telling game

D&D without a doubt and probably some version of Star Wars.

I don't see GURPS going away anytime soon, and Palladium will probably fold way before then.

Quote from: RockViperD&D without a doubt and probably some version of Star Wars.

I don't see GURPS going away anytime soon, and Palladium will probably fold way before then.

Palladium goes when Kevin S. goes.  That's how it'll be.

Cool thread idea, Balbinus!

D&D in some form.  I think that the Monopoly comparison made upthread was apt, and that it's become established enough in popular culture that it will never completely go away, though it's certainly possible that it will mainly be a nostalgia game in twenty years.

Other than that, I really don't know.  Vampire/New WOD (or New-New WOD, or New-Old WOD, etc.) could be around, though it may be dormant for a while before it does so.  It's also possible that new versions of other licensed games that are around now will have been made by then, after the media properties being resurrected or if companies can pick up the licenses for cheap.  Star Wars is iffy, I think -- there will still be interest in it, but by then they may have left the RPG behind, so there won't be a version in print.  

I think Call of Cthulhu might be kept around for nostalgia, though for some weird reason I keep thinking that there will be more done with the Mythos in terms of TV or major movies, which would fuel RPG interest (hey, if you told people ten years ago that Battlestar Galactica would be remade into a critically acclaimed TV series, you'd be laughed at...)

Mongoose will be around, though I don't know which of their RPGs will be.  But they know what they're doing, business-wise, so I think they will be around in 20 years doing something.  I would not be surprised if they eclipse WOTC at some point.

It's hard to predict this with any accuracy, but it is fun.

BOTH ... D&D/D20  and GURPS I see as still being around in 2027. There is something so "basic" about those systems that I see them both being able to hang on for decades.
Hell, If I ever have kids I could probably teach them either game.

 Some version of World of Darkness I see as still around . After all, even Goths grow up a little, have kids and teach them their favorite games.

- Ed C.

Quote from: KoltarBOTH ... D&D/D20  and GURPS I see as still being around in 2027.

- Ed C.

Gurps, I agree with.  D&D (In some form) I agree with as well.  D20?  I don't think so.  I think eventually it will fade and probably wither.

Not tommorrow, not next week but I don't think D20 will be around in D20.  

Though I am not sure how much of the industry is going to be around in 20 years either.

I think the hobby as a whole will be much different then it is now.  Who knows if game stores will survive.

People m ight be buying and finding their stuff online (and I doubt many of the companies, even the biggies) will be around then.

Quote from: RezendevousMongoose will be around, though I don't know which of their RPGs will be.  But they know what they're doing, business-wise, so I think they will be around in 20 years doing something.  I would not be surprised if they eclipse WOTC at some point.

Really?  Now there's a daring prediction I wasn't prepared to make.

!i!

Quote from: Ian AbsentiaReally?  Now there's a daring prediction I wasn't prepared to make.

!i!

Probably too daring, now that I've thought about it a bit. However, I do think they will last a lot longer than most other current RPG companies.

Quote from: RezendevousProbably too daring, now that I've thought about it a bit. However, I do think they will last a lot longer than most other current RPG companies.

Well, there's always room for the shovelware candidate.  Mongoose is the "Tycoon" game publisher of the RPG world.

D&D, for sure.
CoC, most likely.
Star Wars, perhaps.
WFRP, hopefully.
GURPS, dunno but we'll see if it's generic enough to stand the test of time.
Palladium, well with K.S you never know, anything can happen.
Maybe some weird neo gothic storytelling game.

With GURPS - what do you think of GURPS, or something like it, becoming a... argh, "metagame" is taken... um, "framework game"?

An awful lot of people buy GURPS books even though they don't play GURPS (or used to in SJG's heyday, anyway). I could see GURPS ending up as something not actually played, but used to build things that people could use in other games. FUDGE could also be used for a similar purpose, a sort of standardised descriptive language.

Just a thought.