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MERP has levels, albeit they are slightly less exciting than in 1e AD&D. Basically in MERP when you level up you always get a bunch of numeric increases like in D&D - hit points, skill points, attack bonuses, save bonuses, etc. If you're a caster you also get extra spells known and extra spell...

4e was unquestionably still the market leader for at least the first chunk of its run. I suspect it remained so throughout, and that Pathfinder was only ever a close second, but let's not get into that. The point being, no, in fact having 'Dungeons and Dragons' on your cover appears to be a...

I'll engage on this because I think it's an interesting question. I (with no evidence) suspect that if D&D never existed, and some other reasonable trad RPG like MERP, Runequest, or WFRP had been the first published RPG instead, with the same level of marketing and support, that game would be...

No, I presented 2nd favourite as a minimum position, and implied that for other people it actually is their favourite.

I had to google WTF a Zima is. Part of the magic of old Marvel comics in the 80s and 90s, to us in the UK, was wondering WTF a Reeces Pieces was, or a Hostess Fruit Pie. Now that magic is gone

OK, but none of that in any way contradicts what I suggested.

Do you accept that meaning might have been 'just about everyone likes D&D well enough to play it, even if it might not be necessarily their first choice'?

You're just a troll. I'm mostly going to stop responding to you now.

So, to be clear, because nuance, metaphor, and hyperbole are forbidden, you literally meant that the post was a noise made through a whistle that only dogs could hear?

So you're now saying that the statement about D&D being everyone's second favourite RPG wasn't meant literally? Thank you for conceding the point.

'This game is literally the second favourite RPG of everyone in the entire world' is not faint praise.

I think the poster assumed that everyone would see it was obviously not meant literally. Just to check, when you said it was a dog whistle, did you literally mean that it was a noise only dogs could hear?

It clearly wasn't meant literally. But even if it was, this would not make it a dog whistle.

Oh noes! It's literally the second favourite RPG of everyone in the entire world. What a devastating insult.

Really? It's a coded phrase meant to cloak something extremely offensive? You don't think this might be an overreaction?

Once again, I do not believe the phrase was meant literally, but rather to illustrate that D&D is at a minimum something that just about everyone will play. Some people's favourite. Some people's second (or third, or fourth) favourite. The other half of this thread is you taking issue with the...

D&D has been in print continually for 50 years. It's had multiple different editions, with considerable variation in mechanics and playstyle, yet for each of those 50 years (barring potentially a short period in the 90s vs Vampire and potentially a short period in the early 2010s vs Pathfinder)...

Unless those books say 4e on them!

Under the table gigs? Like with Dan Akroyd in Ghostbusters?

Not with that attitude! You see what kind of apartments can be afforded if people cut back on luxuries? Not once do those characters pay for streaming services or Just Eat deliveries.