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What game Could "Be" D&D, Culturally?
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<blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 8521054" data-attributes="member: 4534"><p>And they deserve credit for keeping Star Wars alive during a time period where there was a dearth of new material. No movies or toys it was just WEG making Star Wars stuff for the most part. </p><p></p><p>What does it mean for a game to be a cultural touchstone? I think it means that a significant number of non-gamers know the name of the game and have at least a vague idea of what it's all about. <em>Vampire the Masquerade </em>became a cultural touchstone in the 1990s in the years following its 1991 release. There was a prime time television series that aired on Fox for about half a season, VtM inspired a similar moral panic to what we saw with D&D in the 1980s, and the game was mentioned on talk shows and programs like <em>Real Stories of the Highway Patrol </em>(I actually saw that episode.) Of course VtM never became the cultural touchstone D&D did. </p><p></p><p>We've got to think outside the box here so let's look at non-traditional sources. I'm given to understand that there are quite a few people, mostly women, who essentially role play urban horror/fantasy romances. We might not think of them as gamers because they don't post on these forums and they don't buy RPGs or dice, but they're out there. I think some urban horror/fantasy romance game could potentially be a cultural touchstone if someone could figure out how to tap into that market.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MGibster, post: 8521054, member: 4534"] And they deserve credit for keeping Star Wars alive during a time period where there was a dearth of new material. No movies or toys it was just WEG making Star Wars stuff for the most part. What does it mean for a game to be a cultural touchstone? I think it means that a significant number of non-gamers know the name of the game and have at least a vague idea of what it's all about. [I]Vampire the Masquerade [/I]became a cultural touchstone in the 1990s in the years following its 1991 release. There was a prime time television series that aired on Fox for about half a season, VtM inspired a similar moral panic to what we saw with D&D in the 1980s, and the game was mentioned on talk shows and programs like [I]Real Stories of the Highway Patrol [/I](I actually saw that episode.) Of course VtM never became the cultural touchstone D&D did. We've got to think outside the box here so let's look at non-traditional sources. I'm given to understand that there are quite a few people, mostly women, who essentially role play urban horror/fantasy romances. We might not think of them as gamers because they don't post on these forums and they don't buy RPGs or dice, but they're out there. I think some urban horror/fantasy romance game could potentially be a cultural touchstone if someone could figure out how to tap into that market. [/QUOTE]
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