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<blockquote data-quote="Swanosaurus" data-source="post: 9281162" data-attributes="member: 7044220">I come from a country where, for most of the time, D&amp;D played second or third fiddle to The Dark Eye and Call of Cthulhu (and probably also, at times, to Shadowrun). As far as I know, Fifth Edition has finally become number one here, but that's a more recent development.Therefore it's weird and more on the negative side for me that especially these days, people talk about RPGs coming from D&amp;D assumptions. A lot of people (from a more global perspective, rightfully) assume that if you're talking RPGs, you're talking D&amp;D, and are unaware that there are a lot of &quot;D&amp;Disms&quot; that most RPGs unrelated to D&amp;D simply don't share. So there's a huge semantic barrier, and one that often makes you feel marginalized within what is supposedly your community if you &quot;don't speak D&amp;D&quot; too well.On the other hand, yeah, it's great that RPGs are such a big part of the mainstream these days, and it couldn't have happened without D&amp;D as a reference point for a more general audience out there unfamiliar with the notion that there might be other RPGs. Still, I'm kind of miffed, that in so many episodes Stranger Things didn't even give the slightest nod toward the idea that games like Traveller, RuneQuest (I think even Cyberpunk) were already out there and being played (how cool would it be if one of the gang was trying to get them to play Traveller for a whole season ...).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Swanosaurus, post: 9281162, member: 7044220"] I come from a country where, for most of the time, D&D played second or third fiddle to The Dark Eye and Call of Cthulhu (and probably also, at times, to Shadowrun). As far as I know, Fifth Edition has finally become number one here, but that's a more recent development. Therefore it's weird and more on the negative side for me that especially these days, people talk about RPGs coming from D&D assumptions. A lot of people (from a more global perspective, rightfully) assume that if you're talking RPGs, you're talking D&D, and are unaware that there are a lot of "D&Disms" that most RPGs unrelated to D&D simply don't share. So there's a huge semantic barrier, and one that often makes you feel marginalized within what is supposedly your community if you "don't speak D&D" too well. On the other hand, yeah, it's great that RPGs are such a big part of the mainstream these days, and it couldn't have happened without D&D as a reference point for a more general audience out there unfamiliar with the notion that there might be other RPGs. Still, I'm kind of miffed, that in so many episodes Stranger Things didn't even give the slightest nod toward the idea that games like Traveller, RuneQuest (I think even Cyberpunk) were already out there and being played (how cool would it be if one of the gang was trying to get them to play Traveller for a whole season ...). [/QUOTE]

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