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<blockquote data-quote="Mirrorrorrim" data-source="post: 9239480" data-attributes="member: 7040132">How am I insulting thousands of games? Nothing I said called out all other games as &quot;bad&quot; and that Wizards has the only good game in D&amp;D. Though I do recognize that D&amp;D already has homefield advantage of being the 800lb. gorilla. I specifically called out 2 primary factors. A good game, and a large, positive, vocal community that can spread the word. A game can be good and have a small community. There are lots of great games, but how many of those great games have grown large, positive communities that aren't always comparing themselves to Wizards/D&amp;D, or aren't antagonistic and off-putting? Paizo is the biggest, and their community is as toxic and fractured as much as Wizards' because Paizo keeps misstepping too.The OGL debacle was the big thing that caused fear in the industry, and Wizards walked it back and made it future proof with the Creative Commons move. Since then Wizards and D&amp;D has done nothing to actively discourage other game systems. Sure, their efforts make it easier to adopt their game, and for other companies to use their system, but that's not the same thing. In fact, the D&amp;D designers are advocates for other games, and are friends with the designers of other companies.People can villainize Wizards and D&amp;D all they want, but that is based on Wizards screwing their own stuff up.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mirrorrorrim, post: 9239480, member: 7040132"] How am I insulting thousands of games? Nothing I said called out all other games as "bad" and that Wizards has the only good game in D&D. Though I do recognize that D&D already has homefield advantage of being the 800lb. gorilla. I specifically called out 2 primary factors. A good game, and a large, positive, vocal community that can spread the word. A game can be good and have a small community. There are lots of great games, but how many of those great games have grown [I]large[/I], positive communities that aren't always comparing themselves to Wizards/D&D, or aren't antagonistic and off-putting? Paizo is the biggest, and their community is as toxic and fractured as much as Wizards' because Paizo keeps misstepping too. The OGL debacle was the big thing that caused fear in the industry, and Wizards walked it back and made it future proof with the Creative Commons move. Since then Wizards and D&D has done nothing to actively discourage other game systems. Sure, their efforts make it easier to adopt their game, and for other companies to use their system, but that's not the same thing. In fact, the D&D designers are advocates for other games, and are friends with the designers of other companies. People can villainize Wizards and D&D all they want, but that is based on Wizards screwing their own stuff up. [/QUOTE]

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