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<blockquote data-quote="JEB" data-source="post: 8201428" data-attributes="member: 10148">Ah, you must have missed this earlier in the thread then:I personally think that's pretty plausible.Absolutely agreed that nothing would stop wargames from making the leap to computer games (strategy and RTS), just like they did in our history. And it seems pretty plausible that there'd eventually be fantasy versions. (Assuming by &quot;its own Warcraft&quot; you don't literally mean Warcraft, but &quot;a fantasy wargame&quot;.) If nothing else we surely see the LOTR wargames we got after the movies in the 2000s.(I will reiterate my skepticism about ASOIAF/GOT, though. GRRM was into RPGs and had mainly been a SF/horror writer - including on the RPG-based Wild Cards universe - before he got into fantasy fiction. It's not impossible, but it also strikes me as in doubt.)I was ready to cast doubt on LARPs existing, but according to Wikipedia it doesn't really depend on D&amp;D for its origins. (I bet it's called something else, though, since the term &quot;role-playing game&quot; wouldn't have likely been widely used by the late 1970s/early 1980s, when LARP was catching on.) On the other hand, it sounds like D&amp;D's influence was important to popularizing them, so they're probably much more niche than in our timeline (which is saying something). Also, I'm not sure LARPs in our history ever influenced video games, so it also seems less likely in this timeline.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JEB, post: 8201428, member: 10148"] Ah, you must have missed this earlier in the thread then: I personally think that's pretty plausible. Absolutely agreed that nothing would stop wargames from making the leap to computer games (strategy and RTS), just like they did in our history. And it seems pretty plausible that there'd eventually be fantasy versions. (Assuming by "its own Warcraft" you don't literally mean Warcraft, but "a fantasy wargame".) If nothing else we surely see the LOTR wargames we got after the movies in the 2000s. (I will reiterate my skepticism about ASOIAF/GOT, though. GRRM was into RPGs and had mainly been a SF/horror writer - including on the RPG-based Wild Cards universe - before he got into fantasy fiction. It's not impossible, but it also strikes me as in doubt.) I was ready to cast doubt on LARPs existing, but according to Wikipedia it doesn't really depend on D&D for its origins. (I bet it's called something else, though, since the term "role-playing game" wouldn't have likely been widely used by the late 1970s/early 1980s, when LARP was catching on.) On the other hand, it sounds like D&D's influence was important to popularizing them, so they're probably much more niche than in our timeline (which is saying something). Also, I'm not sure LARPs in our history ever influenced video games, so it also seems less likely in this timeline. [/QUOTE]

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