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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Doug McCrae" data-source="post: 3823647" data-attributes="member: 21169">D&D broke into the mass market a long time ago in the form of crpgs. When I played World of Warcraft for the first time I thought - this is like D&D, but more so. They refined the super-addictive formula of monster bashing, random loot and level upping at the heart of Gygax and Arneson's game while adding beautiful graphics, reducing the prep time to zero and hiding much of the rules complexity.Those changes are what was required to make the game popular. Predictably some traditional rpgers regard the mass market version as 'not roleplaying', much like music fans who disdain anything that's 'too mainstream' or 'too commercial'.</blockquote>