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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Swanosaurus" data-source="post: 9234515" data-attributes="member: 7044220">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 much money is made with something. To me, as someone who never got into D&D and isn't that comfortable with a LOT of the core assumptions that come with D&D (levelling, classes, spell-slot magic, tons of magic items, the three-encounter day ...), the "Golden Age" that Riggs describes feels rather stifling, with a lot of RPG authors trying to fit their ideas into the 5th Edition mold in the hopes of turning a dime instead of being true to their vision (and I dare say most of them probably still don't get a lot out of going with 5e, financially, because there is such of flood of 5e products, how are you going to stick out?). My heart bleeds every time I see a settings that feels like an original idea has been mutilated to make it "5e compatible".To me, the Golden Age of RPGs lies in the maybe relatively modest success of games like Troika, Mothership, Cloud Empress, in the resurgence of RuneQuest (which may be clunky as hell, but which also is an organic whole with a vision that could never sucessfully be duplicated by any 5e product, 13th Age in Glorantha be damned!), in the slow but steady development of Pelgrane Press' Gumshoe Engine games, in the fusion of core principles of Traveller and D&D into the beautifully simple Barbarians of Lemuria system, which, by now, forms the basis of a whole family of RPGs ...I guess for Riggs all of this is marginal, just some splashes created by the death throes of the Golden Age of RPGs. To me, all of this IS the Golden Age of RPGs, and if the 5e monoculture breaks apart, I'll welcome the breath of fresh air, commercial success be damned. Claiming that RPGs will become less interesting, less exciting and less creative only makes sense if the only thing that ever interests you are 5e products.</blockquote>

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