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<blockquote data-quote="mxyzplk" data-source="post: 7679633" data-attributes="member: 16450">Great article.&nbsp; As I was reading Ready Player One half of my brain was saying &quot;this is cool&quot; and the other half was saying &quot;I feel like I'm being pandered to, and not in a good way.&quot; Of course to a degree as anything mainstreams you will get the &quot;geekier&quot; margin of the hobby - like how the FORGE was the rebellion against the success of D&amp;D and trad RPGs. So there's always something to be weirder about. That's the advantage to the Mentzer-mentioned minimalism of RPGs - as something gets mainstreamed and turned into pablum and its host company starts to talk about &quot;the brand&quot; more than about &quot;the game,&quot; there's not a lot of startup cost for something else to arise that gets it right instead. Other areas where companies control the means of production more completely are much more of a threat when they &quot;sell out.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mxyzplk, post: 7679633, member: 16450"] Great article. As I was reading Ready Player One half of my brain was saying "this is cool" and the other half was saying "I feel like I'm being pandered to, and not in a good way." Of course to a degree as anything mainstreams you will get the "geekier" margin of the hobby - like how the FORGE was the rebellion against the success of D&D and trad RPGs. So there's always something to be weirder about. That's the advantage to the Mentzer-mentioned minimalism of RPGs - as something gets mainstreamed and turned into pablum and its host company starts to talk about "the brand" more than about "the game," there's not a lot of startup cost for something else to arise that gets it right instead. Other areas where companies control the means of production more completely are much more of a threat when they "sell out." [/QUOTE]

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