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<blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 8458705" data-attributes="member: 86653"><p>Positive or negative connotations, it is the single, one and only almost household by household recognizable brand name for RPGs. Has bee since the ’80s.</p><p></p><p>But that proves the point. Non-players know what D&D is. Because D&D is synonymous with RPG. That’s literally what you’re arguing against.</p><p></p><p>Again, proving the point.</p><p></p><p>It’s not about positive or negative <em>outside</em> of the gamer community. It’s recognition and conflating D&D with RPG.</p><p></p><p><em>Within</em> the community, that conflation continues as large chunks of people who should know better simply kludge D&D to do anything and everything rather than look for a system designed to do what the Referee and players actually want to use the game for.</p><p></p><p>Sure, you could run a murder mystery with D&D...but it’s going to suck, mechanically, as the system is not designed to handle that and so will fight you the whole way. This is why conflating D&D with RPG is bad. People conflate the “your only limit is your imagination” part of RPGs with being unique to D&D...rather than a common, definitional aspect of all RPGs. So they think only D&D is like this. It’s not.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="overgeeked, post: 8458705, member: 86653"] Positive or negative connotations, it is the single, one and only almost household by household recognizable brand name for RPGs. Has bee since the ’80s. But that proves the point. Non-players know what D&D is. Because D&D is synonymous with RPG. That’s literally what you’re arguing against. Again, proving the point. It’s not about positive or negative [I]outside[/I] of the gamer community. It’s recognition and conflating D&D with RPG. [I]Within[/I] the community, that conflation continues as large chunks of people who should know better simply kludge D&D to do anything and everything rather than look for a system designed to do what the Referee and players actually want to use the game for. Sure, you could run a murder mystery with D&D...but it’s going to suck, mechanically, as the system is not designed to handle that and so will fight you the whole way. This is why conflating D&D with RPG is bad. People conflate the “your only limit is your imagination” part of RPGs with being unique to D&D...rather than a common, definitional aspect of all RPGs. So they think only D&D is like this. It’s not. [/QUOTE]
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