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<blockquote data-quote="Helldritch" data-source="post: 8473648" data-attributes="member: 6855114">Point given. But are these RPGs accessible enough to be the first to learn? The learning curve is relatively high in GURPS, I have not played the others. I am sure that they have their fan base but they stay fringed for a reason. Yes genericness isn't the only point. The rich lore, the amount of reusable material, the easiness of the rules, the art and so on do provide a good amount of help in explaining the success of D&amp;D now. But right at the beginning when D&amp;D was starting&nbsp; others tried to dislodge it and failed. And that is the fact that D&amp;D was the most generic system out there. All the others tried to either complexify the rules or were stuck in a very specific setting. The fad around them faced leaving only D&amp;D as the leader in RPG. At some point, D&amp;D expanded into many settings especially with second edition with Planescape,&nbsp; Ravenloft,&nbsp; Darksun and so on. Hey, even the video game Diablo became a setting! If that is not generic, nothing is.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Helldritch, post: 8473648, member: 6855114"] Point given. But are these RPGs accessible enough to be the first to learn? The learning curve is relatively high in GURPS, I have not played the others. I am sure that they have their fan base but they stay fringed for a reason. Yes genericness isn't the only point. The rich lore, the amount of reusable material, the easiness of the rules, the art and so on do provide a good amount of help in explaining the success of D&D now. But right at the beginning when D&D was starting others tried to dislodge it and failed. And that is the fact that D&D was the most generic system out there. All the others tried to either complexify the rules or were stuck in a very specific setting. The fad around them faced leaving only D&D as the leader in RPG. At some point, D&D expanded into many settings especially with second edition with Planescape, Ravenloft, Darksun and so on. Hey, even the video game Diablo became a setting! If that is not generic, nothing is. [/QUOTE]

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