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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Enevhar Aldarion" data-source="post: 8533057" data-attributes="member: 6818233">A scifi game would have still never come out on top. Add to the fantasy and/or medieval flavor that has always been preferred with the SCA and the groups that grew out from them that wanted fantasy in their medieval recreations, and then the LARP world as well. People fantasy LARP and horror LARP, not scifi LARP. With the exception of the Star Fleet LARPing, and if you call them LARPers to their faces, they will pull their toy phasers out or sic their tribbles on you.But back on the topic, I think with less complexity and better marketing, the percentile-based systems could have taken off and knocked the D&D system down. Runequest in 1978. BRP, the core system from Runequest in 1980, Call of Cthulhu, using the BRP system, in 1981, Rolemaster and Middle Earth Role Playing in 1982, and others. D100 systems were on the rise at the start of the 80's and then what happened? Sure, CoC is still quite popular, the rest just plateaued or sank. Too complex for the early gaming world already used to AD&D.</blockquote>