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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 3838151" data-attributes="member: 3649">I think eventually someone would have come up with the idea of the RPG, but I don't think we'd see the predominance of fantasy. Most of your computer science people at that time who were reading speculative fiction were reading science fiction instead of fantasy so it seems much more likely that if tabletop RPG's ever came about, they'd follow their early computer ancestors and be science-fiction- based. Fantasy might well be a small little niche under space-based and psionics-based games. Certainly a lot of 'D&D'-isms would not have come about but I'm certain that there would have been other '-isms' to replace them. We'd have questions like 'Why are all the lasers in Starships and Spacemen colored green?' and answers like 'When Paul Layten invented the original S&S computer game, he only had a limited color pallete to work with and that has stayed in force for 30 years'. And we'd have thread titles like 'S&S 4E changes lasers to blue?! I'm burning down ID Software and canceling my digital subscription right now'.</blockquote>