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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OB1" data-source="post: 9665643" data-attributes="member: 6796241">Exactly!  And even though that's not what it's made for, it's incredibly good at doing it.  That, to me, is the weird bit of magic in what Gygax created.  He made a small force mission simulator for wargaming, and yet the way it was put together turned into a story generator that has captivated players and audiences for decades.  Like, prior to CR, there was a podcast called Critical Hit.  A bunch of theatre nerds who had a comic book spoiler podcast (in the mid/late 0s) and decided they wanted to play the new 4th edition of D&D.  While they weren't professional voice actors, their theatre background certainly elevated their game.  Their campaign lasted 10 years, and they played 4e through the entire game.  I never played 4e, hadn't played D&D or an RPG in about a decade when I started listening to them, and yet I was enthralled with the story from the start and kept listening the entire time.  They took breaks to play other systems, sometimes for months at a time, but none of those other stories resonated with me the way the D&D campaign did.  I've tried every bit of non D&D content they've put out, but never lasted more than a few episodes.  For whatever reason, it just doesn't work the same way.  And their audience post D&D is a fraction of what it once was.I'm not saying no system will ever be able to do what D&D does, only that that system doesn't exit yet.  Maybe DH is that system.  I'm going to give Age of Umbra a try (even though the previous DH one shots didn't work for me at all) and we'll see.</blockquote>

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