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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 5032896" data-attributes="member: 58197">By themselves? Certainly not. I've never played a Living X game in my life and don't particularly want to, and I'm not about to let the Character Builder get in the way of homebrewing up some races if I feel like it.Nevertheless, they do contribute to a homogenous experience. They help spread the popularity of a specific style of play.*blink* You must not have been playing AD&D in the same world I was. My recollection is that there was a ton of other games. Games ranging from Vampire to Rifts to GURPS to Shadowrun to Amber to Ars Magica - and God knows how many others - all got their start in the AD&D era.Back then, every gamer and his dog thought they had what it took to found their own game company and make a go of it. Some of them were even right. Meanwhile, lots of players who had been sucked in by the D&D craze were getting bored with AD&D and looking for the new shiny, and MMOs hadn't yet siphoned off all the casual gamers, so there was enough money sloshing around the market to support a lot of startups... for a while.From what I've seen, while there may be more non-D&D games today in terms of number of products on the market, the number of popular non-D&D games has drastically declined. There was once a time, as TSR spiraled toward bankruptcy, when White Wolf looked like it might actually mount a challenge to topple D&D from its throne. Can you even remotely conceive of any tabletop game being in a position to say that today?</blockquote>

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