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While I understand the points you make.... what if the dominance of D&D is just because people like it and have fun? Checkers players...

The ability of upper classes to murder people in lower classes actually varied a bunch by time and place. The Holy Roman Empire had a...

D&D is Soul Caliber. A vaguely Renaissance/Age of exploration set world where you can have. Medieval knight in plate and greatsword, a...

I agree, at least insofar as the the game foundations can support a lot of tools -- that mostly #PPs are making because WotC won't. My...

Hence why (although its an interesting topic) I keep the NPCs in the world very very low level.

Indeed! But my point is that Conan-looking barbarians and giant apes and dragons and faux-Vikings and chainmail-bikini Amazon...

I’ve never had a problem with folks seeing it as having some of the trappings of the Middle Ages with European style castles and armor...

I agree with your rationale but I’m starting to see the question from the opposite perspective. The evolution of D&D and similar games...

Quoted for truth and saying netter than i did... Aye, I blame the devil rum...

Personally, I think a lot of D&D's success can be attributed to doing a lot of different kinds of games well enough that it's fine. That...

3.5 and such "were" good toolkits. Until they grew so bloated and had so many modifiers it took 20 minutes to calculate your attack...

Guns and cannons have always been part of my homebrew worlds. Always felt silly not to have them with all the other stuff D&D has.

But most of us (although "I" know my history) aren't trying to recreate actual specific periods. I think it was in this thread that I...

I said technically no, but I voted yes. I've said that and then quoted it again, and now I'm explaining it yet a third time. I don't...

Well Kwalish's apparatus has always been there. Remember Merlund had ties to gamma world setting.. we also had the barrier peaks...