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But don't forget its also a thread talking about resistance to change within D&D fans, so what its done in the past is not really...

Its much more obvious if you hang out in spaces that are more general-RPG oriented and/or soem Old School spaces (when you avoid the...

This underscores a important point too: our bubbles will make us think a game is dead when outside our bubble it might have a thriving...

And Alternity.net is its own thing.

Well, I can't speak for the WEG D6 Star Wars Discord I found, because it had a "no politics clause", but not like here has a "no...

I'd assumed he'd meant commercial content.

Even accepting that, the degree of problem he seems to run into is extreme. I didn't hit that many people in that bucket in 1975.

Well, I don't think I've done a pulp game in my life, far as that goes, but I figured it didn't hurt to mention them.

There are decent sized communities for a number of those so it seems to break your first criterion at least.

I've heard occasional references to people still using FUDGE well after FATE, but it didn't seem frequent.

I wasn't counting POD since it isn't likely to show up in stores and as such, isn't any more visible than the PDF already is in practice.

I think it kind of depends on how many players you have and their ability to be invested in each other's characters. I wouldn't run...

I wasn't sure if any of the 3pp stuff was anything but PDFs.

Sometimes, you have a perfectly normal day in the library, and then other times, you have baby possums

That's just ridiculous on the face. GMs sign up for all kinds of constraints, and clearly go out of their way to design entirely new...