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<blockquote data-quote="Cadfan" data-source="post: 4518145" data-attributes="member: 40961">That's an easy question to answer.Because in a roleplaying game you're playing a character, and the sorts of characters that people want to play change based on what's popular in fantasy literature, movies, and television.If the primary reason that people played chess was because they liked pretending to be a rook, then chess would no doubt wane in popularity when pretending to be a rook fell out of favor in comparison to, I dunno, pretending to be a little top hat or a boot.But that's not why people play Chess, so that doesn't happen.Fantasy literature is different these days, in comparison to the days of yore back in the 70s or 80s.&nbsp; The same is true of movies.&nbsp; And comic books.&nbsp; And Saturday morning cartoons.&nbsp; And a whole new genre of stuff from Asia has shown up and stuck its foot in the door.&nbsp; Heck, since D&amp;D was first written, at least two entirely new genres of fantasy literature have come into existence: Romantic Fantasy, and New Weird.&nbsp; And they've got their own conventions and character archetypes, and if you want to appeal to people who want to roleplay characters, you have to let them roleplay characters they like.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cadfan, post: 4518145, member: 40961"] That's an easy question to answer. Because in a roleplaying game you're playing a character, and the sorts of characters that people want to play change based on what's popular in fantasy literature, movies, and television. If the primary reason that people played chess was because they liked pretending to be a rook, then chess would no doubt wane in popularity when pretending to be a rook fell out of favor in comparison to, I dunno, pretending to be a little top hat or a boot. But that's not why people play Chess, so that doesn't happen. Fantasy literature is [I]different[/I] these days, in comparison to the days of yore back in the 70s or 80s. The same is true of movies. And comic books. And Saturday morning cartoons. And a whole new genre of stuff from Asia has shown up and stuck its foot in the door. Heck, since D&D was first written, at least two [I]entirely new genres[/I] of fantasy literature have come into existence: Romantic Fantasy, and New Weird. And they've got their own conventions and character archetypes, and if you want to appeal to people who want to roleplay characters, you have to let them roleplay characters they [I]like.[/I] [/QUOTE]

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