Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Scribe]

I've only blocked a single person.

One?!

 

[Bedrockgames]

I know I played a bunch of games during the 90s.

I haven't seen any evidence suggesting to me that was the norm, though.

Everthing was so fragmented back then, and we didn't have much of an internet, so it is possible this was the norm just for my group. But I also have memories of going to game stores or smoke shops and comic stores, where there were just more systems on the shelf (again that could be local). I feel like the d20 boom had an impact here. Things don't seem as homogenous to me as they were in the 2000s (when it seemed like the only system for anything I could find was d20 and getting people to try something like Savage Worlds felt like pulling teeth). Obviously there are plenty of other games now getting attention. But it isn't like I have seen any actual data on this

 

[Scribe]

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Anyway, jumping into a hyper annoying meeting first thing sucks. I just want to play around with my shadowdark stuff and relax today.

 

[Ryujin]

I know I played a bunch of games during the 90s.

I haven't seen any evidence suggesting to me that was the norm, though.

I can only say that the three groups, that I played with at the time, also played multiple games. With me as a common factor, running several different games myself, that's obviously not definitive.

Comparison doesn't need to be criticism. It can be used to create a common frame of reference, so that people can better understand the discussion, and D&D is the most known common factor of reference (in various iterations) by way of market dominance.

 

[Maxperson]

I can only say that the three groups, that I played with at the time, also played multiple games. With me as a common factor, running several different games myself, that's obviously not definitive.

Comparison doesn't need to be criticism. It can be used to create a common frame of reference, so that people can better understand the discussion, and D&D is the most known common factor of reference (in various iterations) by way of market dominance.

The late 80's and 90's where when I played the most different RPGs as well, with several folks and myself all running them. In the 2000's I've maybe played one or two RPGs that were not D&D.

 

[Ryujin]

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Anyway, jumping into a hyper annoying meeting first thing sucks. I just want to play around with my shadowdark stuff and relax today.

Currently lamenting that I can't find justification to take another whole week off so that I can avoid the "mandatory" attendance of my uni's IT conference, early next month. I see nothing interesting and have nothing to add to it.

(On the upside filming just wrapped on "The Gamers 4: Dorkness Falls" and "The Gamers: The Series" is already in the can, and just looking for funding for release, so I've got those to look forward to )

 

[The Soloist]

The 90s were AD&D 2e only for me. The group didn't want to try other RPGs. I did manage to squeeze in three games of Star Wars WEG before they asked to go back to AD&D. They refused to play Vampire the Masquerade and spin-offs.

 

[Thomas Shey]

I know I played a bunch of games during the 90s.

I haven't seen any evidence suggesting to me that was the norm, though.

Its hard to figure out how to tell, honestly. If you'd have asked me in the 70's or 80's I'd have said D&D was the big dog with most people playing at least some other things, but the truth to tell is I'd be going by personal contacts and things like APA and magazine influence, and its very arguable these were not typical, or at least there's no reason they'd have been typical.

 

[Ryujin]

The 90s were AD&D 2e only for me. The group didn't want to try other RPGs. I did manage to squeeze in three games of Star Wars WEG before they asked to go back to AD&D. They refused to play Vampire the Masquerade and spin-offs.

That's a pity. the Vampire system was one of the most flexible that we had played. Finally you could do things like intimidate with physical prowess instead of needing to be the party "Face" all the time with generally less ability to follow through on threats, for example.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Comparison doesn't need to be criticism. It can be used to create a common frame of reference, so that people can better understand the discussion, and D&D is the most known common factor of reference (in various iterations) by way of market dominance.

Though its very hard for that to not turn into criticism in some cases, since you presumably (if you're advocating for the system rather than just describing it) like the way it does some things better, at least in the context it'd be used in.