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<blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 1300002" data-attributes="member: 812"><p>Currently I don't play any non-d20 games, though one of my players keeps threatening to run a Hero System game.</p><p></p><p>I've run Fantasy Hero, Palladium, GURPS, Shadowrun and a bastard child of James Bond Roleplaying adapted for fantasy (Barsoom started out on that system). I've played all of those except Palladium.</p><p></p><p>Why is D&D the top dog? Well, of course nowadays market forces conspire to keep its share nice and high, but how did it get that way? A) by being first. B) by being something no other system ever quite was -- a deeply idiosyncratic version of "fantasy". D&D doesn't emulate any particular genre, field, historical period or even "game philosophy". It started out as a bunch of disconnected rules and source materials drawn from a true hodge-podge of early fantasy literature -- and in doing so it became unlike anything else.</p><p></p><p>D&D fantasy is its own thing. It's not like any book or mythology or style.</p><p></p><p>And that gives it a personality all its own, and I believe that has a great deal to do with its longevity and its fame. The phrase "D&D Fantasy" has its own meaning, a meaning that "Fantasy Hero Fantasy" never acquired.</p><p></p><p>One of the things that impressed me about 3.0 was how well it maintained that identity -- for all the rule changes, I still felt like I was playing Dungeons and Dragons.</p><p></p><p>For better or worse. Usually better. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="barsoomcore, post: 1300002, member: 812"] Currently I don't play any non-d20 games, though one of my players keeps threatening to run a Hero System game. I've run Fantasy Hero, Palladium, GURPS, Shadowrun and a bastard child of James Bond Roleplaying adapted for fantasy (Barsoom started out on that system). I've played all of those except Palladium. Why is D&D the top dog? Well, of course nowadays market forces conspire to keep its share nice and high, but how did it get that way? A) by being first. B) by being something no other system ever quite was -- a deeply idiosyncratic version of "fantasy". D&D doesn't emulate any particular genre, field, historical period or even "game philosophy". It started out as a bunch of disconnected rules and source materials drawn from a true hodge-podge of early fantasy literature -- and in doing so it became unlike anything else. D&D fantasy is its own thing. It's not like any book or mythology or style. And that gives it a personality all its own, and I believe that has a great deal to do with its longevity and its fame. The phrase "D&D Fantasy" has its own meaning, a meaning that "Fantasy Hero Fantasy" never acquired. One of the things that impressed me about 3.0 was how well it maintained that identity -- for all the rule changes, I still felt like I was playing Dungeons and Dragons. For better or worse. Usually better. :D [/QUOTE]
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