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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 9841581" data-attributes="member: 87792">Here I think that there are multiple groups who call themselves Trad RPGers.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Continuing  or Modern Trad RPGers who know what they like and are happy with those games. Many of them (like you) also play modern RPGs</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Continuing Trad RPGers with neophobia who stick to their games because familiarity and expertise matter a lot and learning new systems and new ways of thinking takes effort that they don't think (sometimes rightly) is worth putting in</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Continuing or Modern Trad RPGers who are part of the group that played trad RPGs for reasons other than those that lead to modern narrative RPGs. They didn't like that side of RPGs at the time and like it even less now that there's more focus on it</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">And a further group who I won't say much more about lest I break the no politics rule</li> </ul>It's not that people were not looking for modern narrative style games among trad RPGs - they very definitely were. It's that those who are still playing the trad RPGs are massively disproportionately not from among that group for obvious reasons. And to many of them the narrativist RPGs may have split groups that had a wide array of players but those who preferred narrativist games aren't playing the older ones any more now they've something that suits them better; they see this slight splintering as painful.</blockquote>

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