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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 8784151" data-attributes="member: 7026617">Observation of the rest of the commercial sphere and products that had heavy first-entry benefit does not seem to make your first sentence compelling, and that's before you get into the networking benefit present in a large well-known RPG.Because the unanswerable question is how many other RPGs wouldn't "work for a lot of people" if they'd been the first out of the gate.  You can absolutely make an argument that certain elements of the D&D experience were an easy sell (I think its pretty defensible that the gold/magic/levelling process has a basic appeal to a lot of people), but whether that would have been a necessity is impossible to say because D&D was the first out the gate, and that can't be usefully removed from the equation.</blockquote>