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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8248754" data-attributes="member: 82106">Eh, I think people were willing to give it a try. The problem was, it had to be REALLY good if it was going to compete with D&amp;D, T&amp;T, and RQ, which between them pretty well scratched most player's itches as far as Fantasy went. Mechanically it was both dense (and I was a wargamer from way back, and even I found the language less appealing than D&amp;D to read) and simply mediocre. Rolemaster already existed, being published as a full set around the same time. It did the whole professions thing rather better. So, it was not at all a bad game, but it was never going to make much headway in the FRPG space. The ways which seem to have succeeded were either GURPS (could do anything, so it attracted a decent player base), or something like Skyrealms of Jorune which simply offered a very unique take on fantasy, playing against the tropes of D&amp;D pretty much deliberately, but both of those were 5 years later. I guess it took a while for guys like Steve to figure out that formula.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 8248754, member: 82106"] Eh, I think people were willing to give it a try. The problem was, it had to be REALLY good if it was going to compete with D&D, T&T, and RQ, which between them pretty well scratched most player's itches as far as Fantasy went. Mechanically it was both dense (and I was a wargamer from way back, and even I found the language less appealing than D&D to read) and simply mediocre. Rolemaster already existed, being published as a full set around the same time. It did the whole professions thing rather better. So, it was not at all a bad game, but it was never going to make much headway in the FRPG space. The ways which seem to have succeeded were either GURPS (could do anything, so it attracted a decent player base), or something like Skyrealms of Jorune which simply offered a very unique take on fantasy, playing against the tropes of D&D pretty much deliberately, but both of those were 5 years later. I guess it took a while for guys like Steve to figure out that formula. [/QUOTE]

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