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[THEORY] An odd thought about Star Trek and the history of D&D -- Am I wrong?
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<blockquote data-quote="ccs" data-source="post: 7218220" data-attributes="member: 6803664"><p>ST:TNG was hardly the cause of this. More likely it was just using a bit of pop culture to build an episode around.</p><p></p><p>See, despite that negative PR by some nut jobs in the early 80's? D&D (and other RPGs) flourished. YEARS before ST:TNG, D&D had a cartoon on Saturday morning TV. It had a line of toys. A long running series of "choose-your-own-adventure" books. The Basic & Expert boxed sets were widely sold through mass market retail (here in the USA that was KB Toys, Childrens Palace, Toys-R-Us, the Sears & JC Penny Christmas catalogues etc). The AD&D (1e) books & adventure modules were sold in all the main stream book stores of the time. And the selection got more varied once you found your way to a specialty hobby or comic shop.</p><p>And the original Dragonlance novels were best sellers. People who had no idea what the game was read them.</p><p>There were plenty of D&D style movies through the 80's.</p><p>All before ST:TNG.</p><p></p><p>Oh, and eventually the nut jobs were pretty much debunked/laughed off the stage. Once that happened & there wasn't a "story" who's negativity could be mined for ratings the media quit caring.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ccs, post: 7218220, member: 6803664"] ST:TNG was hardly the cause of this. More likely it was just using a bit of pop culture to build an episode around. See, despite that negative PR by some nut jobs in the early 80's? D&D (and other RPGs) flourished. YEARS before ST:TNG, D&D had a cartoon on Saturday morning TV. It had a line of toys. A long running series of "choose-your-own-adventure" books. The Basic & Expert boxed sets were widely sold through mass market retail (here in the USA that was KB Toys, Childrens Palace, Toys-R-Us, the Sears & JC Penny Christmas catalogues etc). The AD&D (1e) books & adventure modules were sold in all the main stream book stores of the time. And the selection got more varied once you found your way to a specialty hobby or comic shop. And the original Dragonlance novels were best sellers. People who had no idea what the game was read them. There were plenty of D&D style movies through the 80's. All before ST:TNG. Oh, and eventually the nut jobs were pretty much debunked/laughed off the stage. Once that happened & there wasn't a "story" who's negativity could be mined for ratings the media quit caring. [/QUOTE]
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