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<blockquote data-quote="Cyronax" data-source="post: 5446010" data-attributes="member: 822">Wow lots of hyperbolic analogies there. Its apples and oranges when comparing different cultural touchstones. Of course D&amp;D isn't as widespread as baseball, football, or other big sports. Why would it be? I would put D&amp;D at nearly the same magnitude of Star Trek, Star Wars, Marvel and DC comics, and probably Harry Potter. Its not as widespread as it was in the 70's and 80's but D&amp;D shaped a lot of kids and adults. Its the leading brand of a pretty big type of game. Sure kids won't have Elminster or Drizzt on their bedsheets.....those characters aren't animated, the'yre in books that older kids, teenagers, and adults read. D&amp;D is more of an engine for personal imagination than it is a full blown marketing and toy line like all those other brands I mentioned earlier. Most people who play D&amp;D dream about their own character being in the spotlight, not some NPC. Why is it so hard to accept that this hobby of a major part of American mainstream entertainment culture? I also disagree with that D&amp;D hasn't inspired new technologies. What about this: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VTE6ErZ3EQ&amp;feature=player_embedded]YouTube - Self-Loading LEGO Dice Tower[/ame](Thanks to the poster named 'reveal' on Circvs Maximvs for the link)C.I.D.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cyronax, post: 5446010, member: 822"] Wow lots of hyperbolic analogies there. Its apples and oranges when comparing different cultural touchstones. Of course D&D isn't as widespread as baseball, football, or other big sports. Why would it be? I would put D&D at nearly the same magnitude of Star Trek, Star Wars, Marvel and DC comics, and probably Harry Potter. Its not as widespread as it was in the 70's and 80's but D&D shaped a lot of kids and adults. Its the leading brand of a pretty big type of game. Sure kids won't have Elminster or Drizzt on their bedsheets.....those characters aren't animated, the'yre in books that older kids, teenagers, and adults read. D&D is more of an engine for personal imagination than it is a full blown marketing and toy line like all those other brands I mentioned earlier. Most people who play D&D dream about their own character being in the spotlight, not some NPC. Why is it so hard to accept that this hobby of a major part of American mainstream entertainment culture? I also disagree with that D&D hasn't inspired new technologies. What about this: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VTE6ErZ3EQ&feature=player_embedded]YouTube - Self-Loading LEGO Dice Tower[/ame] (Thanks to the poster named 'reveal' on Circvs Maximvs for the link) C.I.D. [/QUOTE]

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