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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 8564434" data-attributes="member: 19675">Honestly, I don’t know how much pull it really has.Even though AD&D introduced to the hobby in 1977 and hooked me for life, I never looked for any of Gary’s work outside D&D.  And I say that as someone who once had a collection of RPGs exceeding 150 different systems.  (Now about half of that.)  I hadn’t heard of Luke and Eric at all until maybe a decade or so ago, beyond possibly some blurbs on the origins of certain NPCs, items, or spells.Hell, it wasn’t until the 1990s or 2000s that I even paid attention to the names on the books, and sought out the works of next-generation designers, like Cook.  And even now, I’d be hard pressed to name more than a half dozen from memory.I know that probably makes me an outlier, but by how much, I cannot say I have even an inkling.  Besides online communities, I almost never hear other gamers mention designers by name.Companies or particular game systems, OTOTH, are different.  I know I’ve purchased things from certain companies or for certain systems almost on autopilot.  I know people have told me that a game is from a certain company.  So I suspect that level of branding is a bit more persuasive, and is probably a major driving force behind LaNasa et alia clutching at the coattails of past RPG royalty.</blockquote>