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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NewJeffCT" data-source="post: 1394021" data-attributes="member: 10784">I think that may be part of the reason, but iconic characters like Dirty Harry & Indiana Jones are recent incarnations and do not have the history behind them yet.  I'm guessing that the Old West in the US does not have the same romantic effect on a lot of Europeans or Asians that game.  The same with pirates in the Caribbean - it has a limited audience.  Ancient Rome & Greece will not have the same effect on somebody raised on '3 Kingdoms'.King Arthur & Merlin have 1,200 years of history behind them and the Middle Ages (say 1050AD to 1450AD) is something that affected everybody from Spain & Northern Africa to the Middle East, India, China and Japan.  The Mongols threatened China, and then they threatened Europe in the mid 1200s... The Middle Ages may not have been the same over those thousands of miles, and they may have started using gunpowder a lot sooner in China than in Europe, but they still swung swords and shot bow & arrow back then and dragons and other fearsome monsters are part of the folklore in lands as far apart as England and China. So, I think it is the commonality of D&D that has led to its popularity.  There is something appealing in it to more cultures than other genres.</blockquote>