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6-8 recommended combat encounters a day. The vast majority of character abilities have a direct combat application.

Pardon? The core rules are not 'built for fantasy' at all (and less so that D&D is), and the downtime rules only need adjustment and...

I think you're conflating the rules and the setting. 5E doesn't have anything but the vaguest 'fantasy' setting implied, where BitD has...

What 4e did and many of its “indie” successor games followed was build a really distinct and clear-mechanical language challenge mode...

Huh? This is what you said: And this is what @Campbell said: They're not "pretty much the same thing". They're very different things.

5e has a rather generic way of assigning mediaeval/fantasy skills to a PC; and then a lot of very detailed rules for assigning primarily...

So 5e D&D is a generic RPG rule set? But BitD isn't? I'm not sure what the basis is for the ostensible contrast.

as did 1978 RuneQuest and Starships & Spacemen.

@Campbell said it best, years ago:

I dunno. I recently reread Ghost Tower of Inverness. I don't think it's that good. Castle Amber has some interesting ideas, but a lot of...

For sci-fi, it's the Starfleet Battles Universe and for fantasy, it's Shadow World.

Pen names.

There are people who make inexpensive games meant to be played, not collected. I know, I'm two of them.

I feel like it has more to do with changing tastes. There's a market beyond wargame-derived fantasy. All you need to do is look at other...