Inclusion at the cost of Generalization

[aramis erak]

Just look at McDonald's. I mean, Ray Croc McDonalds. Benefiting not from healthiness or good food but price and marketting.
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D&D is the McDonalds of RPGs...
McDonalds is: Sufficiently tasty to be edible, sufficiently bland to appeal to a wide variety of palates, sufficiently varied in menu to allow for wide range, sufficiently cheap that it's OK that it's just good enough to remain edible.

D&D is: a genre engine, not a setting engine. Just good enough to be playable for most of the gaming populace, in recent (3e onward) insufficiently offensive to drive off most not offended by its complexity, sufficiently complex to have meaningful build choices, sufficiently simple enough to allow newbs to grasp the basics in a session or two.

Both have become the cornerstone of the industries they are in.

 

[Thirteenspades]

It is truly one of the worst films I’ve ever seen, rivaled only by Tommy Wiseu’s The Room.

And Norm of the North.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

And Norm of the North.

Consider this: Norm of the North has some direct to DVD sequels.

No sequels of any kind exist for The Room or The Creeping Terror.