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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 9144061" data-attributes="member: 6779310">If I could go backdate the change... I think, really, that the change should not happen until '77. No AD&D. Straight to Moldvay. And giving Arneson his due.Traveller catches fire faster and more strongly, and keeps pace.Likewise, split the love more equally with RuneQuest, Tunnels & Trolls and  Starships & Spacemen, In 1981, The Fantasy Trip steals a full share, and Howard Thompson lets SJ keep it for a reasonable price plus a profit share.All of the following get bigger than historic, and keep D&D still first, but only a plurality, not a majority. Make the following all more mainstream in the 1980s: Palladium FRPG, Mechanoids, ElfQuest, MERP, Tunnels and Trolls, and later STRPG and MechWarrior.In other words, I want a world without a dominant game, but a field of top tier games that grows all fanbases.If I only get to make a singular change, it's either to make Alternity's engine come out a bit earlier - as D&D 3rd edition, or to have The Fantasy Trip come out and do better, and Howard makes Steve Jackson a full partner, and the CEO, of Metagaming. No SJG, but Metagaming gets SJ's powerful designs and SJ gets the benefit of the existing commercial relationships...When I was running Alternity, it really felt better suited for D&D than for a Traveller knockoff setting (Starfall).</blockquote>