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<blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 8497441" data-attributes="member: 7026617">Its possible; another poster suggested that.&nbsp; During the period from about 78 though 2000 I was pretty much out of the D&amp;D end of the hobby, so I'm not qualified to say what was going on there then.&nbsp; It didn't seem true in the games I was primarily doing during that period (various, but with a lot of focus on Runequest and the Hero System), but that could just prove the dynamic within and outside of the D&amp;D-sphere were different, which would not surprise me.Though you can get an idea that there was a more strong separation there than was entirely the case.&nbsp; As a well-known example, Steve Perrin had a foot pretty firmly planted in both camps, and he wasn't alone.&nbsp; I ran in that direction myself (I wasn't very active in SF fandom, but it was a more natural place for me that with most of the wargamers even though I had a hell of a lot of wargames, but it wasn't a coincidence so many of them were SF or fantasy based).It was certainly a volatile period in the hobby however you look at it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Thomas Shey, post: 8497441, member: 7026617"] Its possible; another poster suggested that. During the period from about 78 though 2000 I was pretty much out of the D&D end of the hobby, so I'm not qualified to say what was going on there then. It didn't seem true in the games I was primarily doing during that period (various, but with a lot of focus on Runequest and the Hero System), but that could just prove the dynamic within and outside of the D&D-sphere were different, which would not surprise me. Though you can get an idea that there was a more strong separation there than was entirely the case. As a well-known example, Steve Perrin had a foot pretty firmly planted in both camps, and he wasn't alone. I ran in that direction myself (I wasn't very active in SF fandom, but it was a more natural place for me that with most of the wargamers even though I had a hell of a lot of wargames, but it wasn't a coincidence so many of them were SF or fantasy based). It was certainly a volatile period in the hobby however you look at it. [/QUOTE]

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