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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 9439717" data-attributes="member: 6779196"><p>It’s very much a case of generification of a brand name. Like we eat popsicles instead of ice lollies, blow our noses with kleenex instead of facial tissues, cover our wounds with band aids instead of adhesive plastic bandages, mend things with scotch tape instead of cello-tape, google things instead of typing them into an internet search engine, and my phone’s auto-correct doesn’t capitalize any of those terms despite all of them being proper nouns. To most folks who aren’t haedcore RPG fans, people play “D&D” instead of tabletop roleplaying games, even when the “D&D” they’re playing is Pathfinder, or Call of Cthulhu, or Daggerheart, or Appcalypse World, or even Vampire the Masquerade. It’s not that people literally think of all RPGs as D&D variants, it’s just the leading brand name becoming the generic term for the type of product.</p></blockquote><p></p>