Today's word is evolve. I have to be quick due to time constraints, but this prompt lends itself well to the entire RPG hobby. Back in the 70's the mainstream didn't know much about it. In the 80's they were big enough to become the cause of most of the problems of the teenage world and were a big feature of the Satanic Panic--D&D is most infamous in this regard, but I remember seeing 'Cyberpunk' on the list of evil before I even knew what Cyberpunk was--, in the 90's the whole thing was on the verge of collapsing and it became even more of a niche thing, the 00's--thanks to the open gaming license IMO--the market was a bit flooded with D20 material and now we're here to day in the 10's where RPGs are bigger in the mainstream than ever before: D&D 5th was/is ab ig deal and dare I say "cool", Virtual Table Tops, Streaming Games--Critical Role breaking Kickstarter Records--and of course self-publishing and Kickstarter and other crowd funding sites giving every Mike, Ken, and Gary with an idea for a decent RPG the legit chance to pull it off. I say the hobby has 'evolved' into something bigger than it ever has been. This doesn't even address how the audience has grown to be a fairly inclusive group--I hate PC buzz words but there you go--no more is it a boys only club in their mom's basements. Everybody has discovered--at least for the moment--what we've known all along. RPGs are fun.
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