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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9282894" data-attributes="member: 7006">Does D&amp;D 5E have to be the biggest RPG there is?&nbsp; No.&nbsp; Or as big as it is in comparison to all the other RPGs?&nbsp; Also no.But it IS both of those things.&nbsp; So so what?At this point in the conversation I think a more interesting side question might be &quot;Would (general) you be more okay with D&amp;D 5E being the biggest RPG and market leader if it wasn't owned by Hasbro/Wizards of the Coast?&quot;&nbsp; Because I suspect a good number of people don't like 5E being as big as it is due strictly to a &quot;corporation&quot; having its foot on top of the hobby (with all the positive and negatives that come with that.)&nbsp; But if an independent company say like FASA was the publisher of 5E and the game was as big as it currently is, with as many employees as it has, and as much cultural cache as it has... would as many people be bent out of shape over it's size?&nbsp; I'm sure some still would of course... because some of those folks still wouldn't be able to find players to play whatever esoteric RPG they want to get on the table... but I do think a lot of people are just so &quot;corporation averse&quot; that they reflexively will say 5E's dominance is bad just for who owns it.&nbsp; So it's not the idea in and of itself that is the problem, but merely who it is in this current configuration.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 9282894, member: 7006"] Does D&D 5E [I]have[/I] to be the biggest RPG there is? No. Or as big as it is in comparison to all the other RPGs? Also no. But it IS both of those things. So so what? At this point in the conversation I think a more interesting side question might be [I]"Would (general) you be more okay with D&D 5E being the biggest RPG and market leader if it wasn't owned by [B]Hasbro/Wizards of the Coast[/B]?"[/I] Because I suspect a good number of people don't like 5E being as big as it is due strictly to a "corporation" having its foot on top of the hobby (with all the positive and negatives that come with that.) But if an independent company say like FASA was the publisher of 5E and the game was as big as it currently is, with as many employees as it has, and as much cultural cache as it has... would as many people be bent out of shape over it's size? I'm sure some still would of course... because some of those folks still wouldn't be able to find players to play whatever esoteric RPG they want to get on the table... but I do think a lot of people are just so "corporation averse" that they reflexively will say 5E's dominance is bad just for who owns it. So it's not the idea in and of itself that is the problem, but merely [I]who[/I] it is in this current configuration. [/QUOTE]

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