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<blockquote data-quote="ninjayeti" data-source="post: 9221699" data-attributes="member: 6789120"><p>I would say that I have significant degree of loyalty to D&D as a concept. I have been playing on and off since I was in grade school so there is a lot of nostalgia and great memories of gaming. I would even say it is part of my identity, the same way being a fan of particular band or sports team can be. </p><p></p><p>To my mind D&D is not necessarily the game carrying the D&D trademark. I think Pathfinder, OSR games, ToV, A5E and other games can be just as much D&D as the version published by WotC. When the OGL fiasco hit, I felt like I could ditch WotC but keep D&D - D&D is the community and the spirit of the game, not the trademark. </p><p></p><p>My loyalty to D&D feels akin to the loyalty people have to sports teams. Over the decades the players change several times over, the coaches change, the uniforms change, and sometimes even the city they play in changes. But people still see it as the same team they rooted for as a kid. In the same way am not loyal to a particular edition of the game, or particular owner. There feels like there is an identity in the game that goes beyond those specifics. </p><p></p><p>To be sure I play other "non-D&D" RPGs. But I think it is hard to feel a sense of loyalty to a hobby generally as opposed to one specific game - even when that game is actually lots of different games and editions.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ninjayeti, post: 9221699, member: 6789120"] I would say that I have significant degree of loyalty to D&D as a concept. I have been playing on and off since I was in grade school so there is a lot of nostalgia and great memories of gaming. I would even say it is part of my identity, the same way being a fan of particular band or sports team can be. To my mind D&D is not necessarily the game carrying the D&D trademark. I think Pathfinder, OSR games, ToV, A5E and other games can be just as much D&D as the version published by WotC. When the OGL fiasco hit, I felt like I could ditch WotC but keep D&D - D&D is the community and the spirit of the game, not the trademark. My loyalty to D&D feels akin to the loyalty people have to sports teams. Over the decades the players change several times over, the coaches change, the uniforms change, and sometimes even the city they play in changes. But people still see it as the same team they rooted for as a kid. In the same way am not loyal to a particular edition of the game, or particular owner. There feels like there is an identity in the game that goes beyond those specifics. To be sure I play other "non-D&D" RPGs. But I think it is hard to feel a sense of loyalty to a hobby generally as opposed to one specific game - even when that game is actually lots of different games and editions. [/QUOTE]
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