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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8267667" data-attributes="member: 18">Has this ever actually happened to any meaningful degree?This seems to be a made-up example, to me. I've read forums for a very long time, and I cannot think of a single time someone was running D&D, wanted to do some specific genre thing, and was told to run a different TT RPG entirely. I'm sure it's happened - the internet is full of idiocy. There's nothing so dumb it hasn't happened.But happened to a meaningful degree? No. I've not seen that, and I don't believe you have either. I strongly suspect more words have been dedicated to this issue in this thread than have ever been typed suggesting people "change systems mid-stream". So essentially you're making Mount Everest out of a pea under a napkin.Almost all "use system X" suggestions are in answer to "I'm thinking of running a campaign about Y". And the OP appears to be complaining about those too.Yup.And this is an actual problem, unlike the pea-in-the-bed stuff being complained about at ridiculous length. A lot of D&D DMs are terrified, completely irrationally, of other RPGs, and very reluctant to play them or suggest that a group try them, which means it's very hard for them to learn from them, and generally means D&D gets used for stuff where a group would genuinely have a better time with a different RPG (esp. in the  longer-term). It also means that when rules/genre stuff are taken from other games into D&D, it is sometimes from a position of relative ignorance, which can be unhelpful. I've even seen people condemn other games on the basis that they played a version of D&D with rules "imported" from that that game, and it didn't work very well lol! I've seen that happen multiple times, which is literally infinity more times than I've seen someone told "Stop running your D&D campaign, go remake your characters in Heroquest, and play that instead!" or something.</blockquote>

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