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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 4975818" data-attributes="member: 3400">Back on original topic. I think it would have failed, miserably. It's like asking what would have happened if you put a finely tuned modern engine in a Ford Model A. Or if modern military weapons were on the battlefields of WWII. Or if Spartacus had a Piper Cub. The surroundings aren't geared for it and can't support it.I think today's RPGs, compared to most in the 1970s, are overdesigned and overly niched to gain the kind of support that early RPGs were able to get. But had a 4e-style D&D taken ahold of any market share, my guess is that the anti-D&D design that we have seen in the RPG industry - specifically designing things to NOT be like D&D's particular mode of fantasy gaming abstraction - would have pushed even stronger toward the rules-light end of the RPG spectrum.</blockquote>