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<blockquote data-quote="prosfilaes" data-source="post: 5690820" data-attributes="member: 40166">At the heart here is the hobbyist game model versus the Monopoly model, and I think if you could switch over to Monopoly model, all these hobbyists wouldn't matter. Monopoly is not a great game; it's just the one everyone knows. Whatever D&amp;D was picked would be the D&amp;D everyone knows; the hobbyists could play whatever they want, but the casual D&amp;D player, the Average Joe that the Monopoly model depends on, would pick up the one RPG that everyone knows and plays. If people regularly played D&amp;D at family outings with random family members, what old versions of D&amp;D the D&amp;D was similar to wouldn't matter.And really, it's like that in right now. I don't play D&amp;D 3.5 because it's my favorite system; among D&amp;D's, I think I prefer Pathfinder, and given a choice, I don't think I'd be playing anything much like D&amp;D at all. But this is the group that's convenient and open to me, so I play D&amp;D 3.5. It's probably not coincidental at all that I'm playing the best selling RPG of the 21st century, instead of something like Nobilis or In Nomine.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="prosfilaes, post: 5690820, member: 40166"] At the heart here is the hobbyist game model versus the Monopoly model, and I think if you could switch over to Monopoly model, all these hobbyists wouldn't matter. Monopoly is not a great game; it's just the one everyone knows. Whatever D&D was picked would be the D&D everyone knows; the hobbyists could play whatever they want, but the casual D&D player, the Average Joe that the Monopoly model depends on, would pick up the one RPG that everyone knows and plays. If people regularly played D&D at family outings with random family members, what old versions of D&D [i]the[/i] D&D was similar to wouldn't matter. And really, it's like that in right now. I don't play D&D 3.5 because it's my favorite system; among D&D's, I think I prefer Pathfinder, and given a choice, I don't think I'd be playing anything much like D&D at all. But this is the group that's convenient and open to me, so I play D&D 3.5. It's probably not coincidental at all that I'm playing the best selling RPG of the 21st century, instead of something like Nobilis or In Nomine. [/QUOTE]

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