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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4161840" data-attributes="member: 19675">And well I know it.  However, its not a dictatorship, either.Roleplaying is a cooperative hobby.  What kind of buddy tells his friends to do something they don't like?  For long periods of time?Love the hobby though I do, having been in situations where I have players who hate a particular system, I don't relish being in that position again.  Given the choice between playing RPGs with a fraction of my gaming buddies (having laid down the law over a particular RPG) and turning the reins over to someone else- or even not gaming for significant periods of time- I'll avoid the first choice if I can.I currently game with a few groups numbering about 15 gamers total.  2 of the groups have players who ONLY play D&D.  You can't even get them to consider other D20 based FRPGs.  Some of the people simply have such time pressures (job, family, etc.) that they don't really have the time to devote to learning new games.Do I force them to play other games?  No- I find people who want to play what I want to.Like I said in that other thread- if its just 1 or 2 people who don't want in- so be it.  But if a sizable chunk of the group is anti-"whatever," I don't see the point in forcing the issue.Life is too short and friends too few.</blockquote>