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That's exactly why I think that the 5e monoculture is often bad for creativity and diversity. I suspect that a lot of creators try to make their scenarios/settings hew to 5e because they hope it will lead to more sales, when their ideas might be better suited to other systems. A lot of the 5e...

This was just as an example for IPs that might be served better by other systems. For a non-claimed IP, let's take Harry Potter: An RPG couldn't use classes very well, since everyone is a wizard (though types modeled in the novels might work - the Bookish, the Talent, the Fool, the Bruiser, the...

Well, I'm just a little bit angry that the takeaway from his essay seems to be: "If you're playing anything but D&D, you're not just irrelevant, you're hurting the RPG community; and RPGs as a whole will get less interesting, creative and diverse without D&D dominance." Most of the things that...

Okay, makes a lot of sense as well ... to be honest, C7's upcoming 5e-based system is the one that actually has me interested because of all the good things I've heard about Adventures in Middle-Earth, and because it seems that C7 has done a lot of interesting and creative stuff with 5e that...

Okay, I admit that I understand that ... it's just that I don't like the idea of "why can't everything just run on D&D?", because I am usually not comfortable with it. That being sad, I'm extremely happy that C7 (and now Free League) are supporting both versions of the game alongside each other...

I don'rt know ... there are pretty solid (and comercially succesful) RPG takes on Dune, Blade Runner, Star Trek and Alien out there, there was a very thematic (now defunct) Game of Thrones RPG - I couldn't see any of these working without at the very least getting rid of levels in their current...

Wow, I must confess that this article makes me a bit angry. It comes across as if role-playing was all about D&D5 and its community; commercially, that may be close to the truth, but my perspective on my hobby is not a commercial one, and my definition of a "Golden Age" is not dependant on how...