D&D 5E D&D and Chain Restaurants: The Poll

[jmartkdr2]

Question for the community? What's the White Castle of rpgs?

 

[TwoSix]

Question for the community? What's the White Castle of rpgs?

Palladium Fantasy. Uncommon but still relatively well-known, mostly a meme, feels fairly tawdry. I can see Harold and Kumar playing Palladium with Neil Patrick Harris as the GM.

 

[aco175]

Since there is no Waffle House, I voted Denny's. It is hard to mess up breakfast food. Everyone likes it and you can have it for supper. Even when it is not great, it is fine and you know what you are getting since the menu does not change.

Wow, it's been 25 years since I had Waffle House. Still want me some smothered, covered, chunked, cow, pig, ran over, dipped.

 

[TheSword]

None of the above. It’s a Sunday Roast Dinner with family/friends.

Familiar, tasty, everyone cooks it in slightly different ways, fundamentally simple but still tasty, you can put as much or little effort into it as you want. Of course everyone has had it at least once.

You can also follow the Gordon Ramsey’s recipe or your own and it will still taste great.

 

[Morrus]

Somewhat limited in that I'm only familiar with McDonalds on that list, so I voted that!

 

[turnip_farmer]

4) Starbucks both helped originate its niche (upscale coffee place) and remains the leader within its space, again much like D&D as a whole.

Upscale cafes have been around for longer than I have been alive, and Starbucks is not one. It's niche would be 'soulless, chain coffee place'.

The analogy also breaks down in that I rather enjoy playing D&D, while Starbuck's coffee is pretty much undrinkable.

 

[TwoSix]

Upscale cafes have been around for longer than I have been alive, and Starbucks is not one. It's niche would be 'soulless, chain coffee place'.

The analogy also breaks down in that I rather enjoy playing D&D, while Starbuck's coffee is pretty much undrinkable.

Ehh, it feels more "upscale" than most common places that people get coffee (Dunkin Donuts, 7-11, Tim Hortons, various convenience stores, etc.). Most places outside urban or heavily populated suburban areas don't have a local high-end coffee shop, in my experience.

Whether or not the coffee (or 5e) is "good" is outside the scope of the comparison, I feel.

 

[turnip_farmer]

Ehh, it feels more "upscale" than most common places that people get coffee (Dunkin Donuts, 7-11, Tim Hortons, various convenience stores, etc.). Most places outside urban or heavily populated suburban areas don't have a local high-end coffee shop, in my experience.

I live an ocean away and have never lived outside urban areas, so I guess we're approaching this question from different coffee ecologies.

 

[Minigiant]

Voted Other, because 5e is Starbucks.

1) Ubiqiutous within its niche. There are other coffee places, even popular coffee chains, but Starbucks is everywhere. Just like 5e within the TTRPG space.
2) Mainly offers one thing, but a ton of modularity within the space that it offers. 5e mainly supports one particular play style (DM focused story play), but gives you a ton of options within that space.
3) You can go to Starbucks for 2 min, or you can go for 5 hours (pre-COVID, anyway). Likewise, 5e works well for both extreme casuals and for dedicated TTRPGers.
4) Starbucks both helped originate its niche (upscale coffee place) and remains the leader within its space, again much like D&D as a whole.

Sounds like 5E is Dunkin Donuts to me then. Because of all the weirdos, old heads, and five-o.

 

[Aldarc]

Question for the community? What's the White Castle of rpgs?

Probably D&D B/X.