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What game Could "Be" D&D, Culturally?
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<blockquote data-quote="Enevhar Aldarion" data-source="post: 8521535" data-attributes="member: 6818233"><p>The Society for Creative Anachronism was founded in 1966, so fantasy LARPing, and thus fantasy ttrpgs would have still happened without the publishing of D&D. Other fantasy rpgs were in print within a year or two of D&D and there is no way those were not already in the planning and/or writing stages when D&D was first released. The 70's were pre-internet and sharing/copying/etc of ideas was a lot slower.</p><p></p><p>Traveller was published in 1977, so it was in the planning/writing stages before Star Wars was released, though I can't find the actual publication month, so I don't know if it hit shelves before or after Star Wars first released in theaters. And because the timing was so close for those two, I don't think there is any way to tell if the movie influenced game sales at all.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yes, but the current batch of celebrities and writers and directors, etc grew up playing D&D, so we have to look at what was hot or not in the 80's and 90's to know why D&D became so mainstream after the release of 5E. If D&D had died with TSR, what game from that same time period could have taken it's place or would any game have? With no new D&D in the 21st century, the gaming market would be likely be microscopic now, compared to what it is. No 3E means no OGL and all the awesome games and settings that were spawned from that don't exist as we know them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Enevhar Aldarion, post: 8521535, member: 6818233"] The Society for Creative Anachronism was founded in 1966, so fantasy LARPing, and thus fantasy ttrpgs would have still happened without the publishing of D&D. Other fantasy rpgs were in print within a year or two of D&D and there is no way those were not already in the planning and/or writing stages when D&D was first released. The 70's were pre-internet and sharing/copying/etc of ideas was a lot slower. Traveller was published in 1977, so it was in the planning/writing stages before Star Wars was released, though I can't find the actual publication month, so I don't know if it hit shelves before or after Star Wars first released in theaters. And because the timing was so close for those two, I don't think there is any way to tell if the movie influenced game sales at all. Yes, but the current batch of celebrities and writers and directors, etc grew up playing D&D, so we have to look at what was hot or not in the 80's and 90's to know why D&D became so mainstream after the release of 5E. If D&D had died with TSR, what game from that same time period could have taken it's place or would any game have? With no new D&D in the 21st century, the gaming market would be likely be microscopic now, compared to what it is. No 3E means no OGL and all the awesome games and settings that were spawned from that don't exist as we know them. [/QUOTE]
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