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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 350142" data-attributes="member: 812">Woah. I can buy a copy of this where? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />This is very true, but there is one other reason D&D is so popular: It's weird.We don't think that because we take so much of the game for granted, but what I mean is that D&D isn't any particular fantasy genre or vision or world turned into an RPG -- the way Harn is a specific vision of a fantasy world. Or Judge Dredd, or pretty much every other RPG on the market. D&D isn't Conan, and it isn't LotR, and it isn't Jack Vance or Greek myth or Norse legend -- it's this weird conglomeration of stuff that doesn't really work together very well. It's not like anything else and so it doesn't limit its appeal to people who like whatever it looks like. People who hate Conan aren't going to play a Conan RPG -- but they just might play D&D with people who LOVE Conan.This bugs people who really do prefer a particular flavour, and find D&D's haphazard assemblage of "Stuff Gary and Dave thought was cool" inconsistent and derivative. And so it is -- and that is one of the secrets to its appeal.You don't have to like it. And I understand why people don't. But that doesn't make it bad.</blockquote>