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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JEB" data-source="post: 8202629" data-attributes="member: 10148">It's certainly possible there would be a game with some very broad resemblance to Warhammer 40K in this timeline, you make a compelling argument there. But I still doubt we'd see a fantasy analogue, considering how much 40K has overtaken Warhammer Fantasy in popularity within our history. Plus, this is likely a world where SF is more dominant in the tabletop gaming space to start with.That doesn't mean, however, that this Warhammer 40K equivalent wouldn't exert some influence on the early, SF-inspired RPG industry. But its influence would not include anything that Warhammer itself drew from D&D.I'm still doubting this. Blizzard went through two Warcraft games before they did Starcraft, so if you delete Warcraft they probably never get around to Starcraft. (Heck, they may never even become that prominent of a company, since their third pillar, Diablo, is extremely D&D-inspied.) Even if they did create Starcraft, if the Warhammer 40K analog in this timeline has no fantasy equivalent to inspire them, they wouldn't be likely to come up with Warcraft on their own.</blockquote>