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The angle is usually "if you like D&D, you just don't know any better." And there's no way to say that without sounding like a tool.

For the last time: The D&D Memes Thread is for memes only. Commentary, arguments, and everything else goes in the discussion thread.

How are people still so shocked and hurt and outraged to learn...on the Internet, in the 21st century...that companies exist to make money? All of them, even the ones you like. How is this still a surprise to so many people?

I'm not sure this can even be measured. Folks play different versions of different games for different lengths of time, and some of us play multiple games a month, and belong to multiple gaming groups (or no groups at all), etc. So this is as correct as we all want it to be, I guess.

Yeah, and I should know better than to mention Pathfinder in the same sentence as...a certain edition of D&D...in these forums. (smh)

I'm just sayin', the D&D brand isn't an invincible juggernaut and WotC doesn't always do everything right. They are easily the #1 TTRPG in the industry, but that hasn't always been the case. They dropped to #6 in the span of 3 years...even Fate outsold them for a brief moment. And it was only...

Not for a brief moment. During 4E's run, Pathfinder actually beat D&D from 2011 until 2024 (when 5E was released.) There was a whole bunch of threads about it back in the day.

(shrug) If you say so. Most people who play D&D might disagree... but I haven't asked all 50 million of them. My nieces and nephews picked it up right away without a hitch. I agree with you on the brand recognition point, though. It is definitely a big draw for new players. This can't be...

Better how? and to whom? I agree with you of course, but those two questions are the crux of the issue. D&D isn't a better game than most for realism, and it isn't better for solo play, or for certain playstyles, etc. But it is the best at what it's trying to be: a genetic TTRPG with wide...

Oh that guy. No wonder I can't see the thumbnail; I blocked that channel ages ago.

Or to my point: should these other games even care if D&D is sitting on top of the heap? If your mission is to find (or create) fun alternatives to D&D, you're in luck: the market is huge, the demand is high, loads of people play TTRPGs as a hobby, and indie games are more popular and...

I don't know about what should change, or whether or not it needs to change at all, or if/when/how a new edition were to come to pass...but assuming it does, here's a list of what I'd like to see. 1. A spell point system to replace the current spell level/spell slot system. The version in the...

Hm, good point. When that happened, folks in my area just kept playing the old BECM or AD&D game, and would scour the used bookstores and comic shops for out-of-print modules and stuff. Maybe it was different in other places, but there wasn't a sudden and massive shift to another game to fill...

That's true even without D&D, though. It's a crowded market now, and D&D is just one game among many. The theory is that if D&D ceases to be, all of its players would spread out evenly among all other available options. But I think it's more likely they would gravitate to the most similar...

What clear negative impacts are these? I'm sure they exist; everything has its downsides. I'm just struggling to see them. From what I can tell, D&D's dominance has elevated the profile of the hobby as a whole, and legitimized (maybe even created) a whole niche in the gaming industry. There...

Yeah, that's what others have said as well. I've looked around in this thread and others, and that does seem to be the case (at least in part.) I guess I don't really understand that sentiment. "I hope D&D fails so that my favorite game will suddenly do better" is a really warped perspective...

I mean, it's at least as reasonable as the prospect of D&D ever being left to only fan support.