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<blockquote data-quote="jmucchiello" data-source="post: 2988424" data-attributes="member: 813">Perhaps you should explore this. Have you bought other RPGs? Did you play them? Extensively? Why or why not?Personally I think it has everything to do with being first to broad appeal. No other RPG has ever had the appeal D&amp;D had in the 80s. And so D&amp;D becomes that Faded Concert T-shirt that's 2 sizes too small for you now but you still wear it because it's your favorite shirt. It reminds you of a simpler time in your life. It is burned into your brain so deeply that even when you get together to play some other RPG, you call it playing D&amp;D.Also, I'd bet you could find 2 gaming groups where 1 has changed 50% of the rules one way and the other group has changed the other 50% of the rules some opposite way such that there are practically no rules in common between them. And if you asked them both what they were playing, they'd both respond D&amp;D. Moreso, if one of them were to tell the other about their last game session, the other would agree that they were playing D&amp;D.D&amp;D is more a state of mind than an RPG. And to provide correlary to Phil, I think so called RPG industry has always been perceived as larger than it is because it rides on D&amp;D's coattails. Without D&amp;D, shelf space for other RPGs would dwindle. After all, somehow, some way, somewhere out there, someone purchased the latest release of GURPS Space 4e for their &quot;D&amp;D&quot; game.RW, if Phil knew what we were transitioning to he wouldn't post it here. He'd invest in it quietly. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="jmucchiello, post: 2988424, member: 813"] Perhaps you should explore this. Have you bought other RPGs? Did you play them? Extensively? Why or why not? Personally I think it has everything to do with being first to broad appeal. No other RPG has ever had the appeal D&D had in the 80s. And so D&D becomes that Faded Concert T-shirt that's 2 sizes too small for you now but you still wear it because it's your favorite shirt. It reminds you of a simpler time in your life. It is burned into your brain so deeply that even when you get together to play some other RPG, you call it playing D&D. Also, I'd bet you could find 2 gaming groups where 1 has changed 50% of the rules one way and the other group has changed the other 50% of the rules some opposite way such that there are practically no rules in common between them. And if you asked them both what they were playing, they'd both respond D&D. Moreso, if one of them were to tell the other about their last game session, the other would agree that they were playing D&D. D&D is more a state of mind than an RPG. And to provide correlary to Phil, I think so called RPG industry has always been perceived as larger than it is because it rides on D&D's coattails. Without D&D, shelf space for other RPGs would dwindle. After all, somehow, some way, somewhere out there, someone purchased the latest release of GURPS Space 4e for their "D&D" game. RW, if Phil knew what we were transitioning to he wouldn't post it here. He'd invest in it quietly. :) [/QUOTE]

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