Recent content by HomegrownHydra

SteveC's original comment made no reference to you let alone accuse you of having a sense of entitlement so your response to him came across as implying that he had a sense of entitlement.

Who said this and where did they say it? I know posters here have made this claim recently but I have never seen any quote or attribution.

What are all those books?

I didn't say that familiar is better. My point was that if a person were to listen to every song ever played and grade each on a scale of 1 to 10 based on how much they enjoyed it they would rate most as a 6 or worse. If they tried every type of food ever made they would rate most as 6 or worse...

Everyone, including you, is ignorant of most things in the world. We all have to make choices on how we spend our time and money based upon very limited knowledge and experience. That others aren't as open to trying other RPGs as you or me is not a character flaw.

I'm not saying there aren't other factors, of course there are. My original comment was to point out that the claim that people only or primarily like D&D because it's their first RPG they've played is false. If it wasn't a really good game they wouldn't enjoy it, and so it is wrong to say that...

Because most things in life we don't enjoy as much as our favorite things. You don't think most music is good as the bands you love, most food isn't as good as your favorite food. So if you listen to another band or eat another food simply because someone else really likes it you are probably...

So what? Because it goes to the heart of why so many people want to play D&D and are resistant to playing other games.

I exclusively play with friends and family, too, and have been willing to try a wide range of games. But I am someone who enjoys learning about other RPGs and eagerly learns the rules of any game I play (except for Pathfinder, I immediately decided to not even bother trying to absorb all those...

You don't know, but we can't try everything so we have to decide if something is worth trying before we've tried it which means we always risk missing out on something awesome or trying something that turns out to be awful. That's life.

That is the burden of being the GM, you put in a ton of work but what you may want to play may not align with what the players want. The solution is to find players who want to play the games you want to run rather than getting upset that your current players don't have preferences that align...

How it became the dominant game isn't a minor issue. A lot of critics of D&D insist that it's only dominant because it happened to be first, but in reality it became dominant and continues to be dominant because it is a really good game that has many features that make it really fun for a very...

People only have so much free time whereas everyone eats multiple times a day and there is a lot more overhead in learning a new system than eating food that has been put in front of you. That people want to spend their limited free time doing something they know they enjoy rather than learning...

You are assuming that people are conditioned by D&D to want a D&D experience rather than people liking D&D because it provides the experience they want.

Justin is getting $9.15 for each sale.