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In my experience, both of those things ('marketers will take credit' & 'it's multiple factors') are usually the case.

If the perception was that the game being sold (i.e. the product) was at one time, or at varying times in its history, deliberately exclusionary, then is it currently the case that the new branding/artwork/marketing has made significant inroads to mitigating that perception? Has the perception...

Thanks for sharing the challenge to Wittgenstein - I'll have to check it out one of these days.* =) *hopefully prior to significantly more language shift invariably muddling the meanings of the terms involved even further

Wittgenstein argued in his Philosophical Investigations that there is no single feature shared universally by all games, but rather that all games share what might be called 'resemblances'. For much of the long history of language, 'game' has enjoyed and participated in various degrees of...

So the marketing strategy, in part, is that WotC wants players seeking out "romance adventures" to alight on D&D first, before they stumble across the likes of Monsterhearts, Thirsty Sword Lesbians, Alchemistresses, Scarlet Heroes, Star Crossed, or another one of what must surely be many others...

It seems that in order to address the question, you'd need either first-hand experience of all the intervening periods in question, or perhaps a huge stack of multi-sourced anecdotal evidence from someone(s) who had, or perhaps both of those. I love reading history, but I don't have the...

Maybe the OP is seeking a Jon Peterson historical treatment of all of the differences, who was responsible for them, and how those differences are subtly moving the older concepts of the game in nuanced directions. I've only read the first edition of 'Playing at the World' - does any...

Blade Runner - what does it mean to be 'human', slavery, false hope as advertising, economic & social stratification A Clockwork Orange - do the ends justify the means in operant conditioning, freedom vs determinism Gattaca - do the ends justify the means in genetic manipulation, self-sacrifice...

My acquisition of 2024 DMG and PH didn't really have anything to do with marketing, insofar as I can tell, and it had everything to do with randomly-timed nostalgia. What's strange to me is that I haven't availed myself of the opportunity to actually play the game, although I did do the...

Silverleaf steps forward with both hands empty in a token of friendship, and says "Greetings, noble dwellers of deep caverns; can we help you?". Just in case, Silverleaf is thinking of the words he must chant to cast his (Sleep) spell. The largest of the hobgoblins shouts, in his language, "Go...

Michael Collins, Michael Palin, Mike Oldfield, & Michael J. Nelson

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Exposure has accelerated my eventual metamorphosis into a starchild.

I've played a special version of chess where every couple of turns there would be a random roll to see if the bishop's weapon broke - if the weapon broke, then there was an additional random check to see how the bishop would now move (attack) as a consequence of using a different weapon (weapons...

Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. - also Lao Tzu

Most of my goodwill comes from nostalgia, and from pretty much everything ancillary to the rules themselves, things like the artwork, or the setting, the weather at the time, the food we ate as we played it, the smell of the paper of a book, the gleam of a new set of dice, etc. It would also...

I didn't plan on it, but "retirement" turned into "becoming a town guard in Whiterun." I was an adventurer like you once, you see. But who says retirement cannot be just as fun? =)

Robin works best as a side character. Someone adapt Claremont's/Bolton's The Black Dragon. =)

I'm working my way through Jon Peterson's The Elusive Shift, as well as Whitney Webb's One Nation Under Blackmail.