D&D 5E D&D and Chain Restaurants: The Poll

[bedir than]

Voted Other, because 5e is Starbucks.

1) Ubiqiutous within its niche. There are other coffee places, even popular coffee chains, but Starbucks is everywhere. Just like 5e within the TTRPG space.
2) Mainly offers one thing, but a ton of modularity within the space that it offers. 5e mainly supports one particular play style (DM focused story play), but gives you a ton of options within that space.
3) You can go to Starbucks for 2 min, or you can go for 5 hours (pre-COVID, anyway). Likewise, 5e works well for both extreme casuals and for dedicated TTRPGers.
4) Starbucks both helped originate its niche (upscale coffee place) and remains the leader within its space, again much like D&D as a whole.

I want to add a 5th to this
5) Within the craft coffee business Starbucks completely and utterly dominates, but within the coffee business they are a very distant 3rd (IIRC).

 

[jmartkdr2]

BEHOLD!

The Turducken!

Also pictured? Some kind of food ... stuffed turkey, maybe?

Tangent time: the Romans (ya know, in Italy) used to do something similar: a chicken in goose in a pig in a cow.

Of course, that would feed a whole neighborhood, not just four people.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Of course, that would feed a whole neighborhood, not just four people.

Four people?

You have to be kidding yourself if you think three people are gonna come in and take some of MY turducken!!!!!!

 

[Man in the Funny Hat]

Wendys.

The Fight Against Frozen Beef | Feast Of Legends Wendy's Role-Playing Game

www.feastoflegends.com

 

[Morrus]

America is a strange place, you have a whole shop for thing supermarkets just have counters for.

You’ve got that backwards.

 

[Mind of tempest]

You’ve got that backwards.

I do not see how could you please explain?

 

[Morrus]

I do not see how could you please explain?

Well, (a) that’s everywhere not just America; and (b) the shops came before the supermarkets.

 

[J-H]

Chick Fil A - because whatever concept you build within the rules, you can do it with extreme speed, you know it'll work fairly well... and the game is fun to DM as well as play, so you're more likely to have conversations like:
Player: Thanks for DMing!
DM: My pleasure!

 

[Mind of tempest]

Well, (a) that’s everywhere not just America; and (b) the shops came before the supermarkets.

look I have never seen a delicatesent I think they died of around me aside for a deli counter as that has the rest of the shop to support it.
I know thing predates the supermarket just most of those things have nearly died out from the competition.

 

[DND_Reborn]

LOL I can't believe you actually bothered making a poll!

It's official, I have definitely wasted too much time here and need to find more constructive things to do with my free time.