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<blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 9248218" data-attributes="member: 52734">I think this is the nail on the head right here.&nbsp;&nbsp; The overlap between RPG and TT battles is small.&nbsp;&nbsp; While D&amp;D grew out of TT play, they're essentially separate and appeal to mostly different groups.&nbsp;&nbsp; Yes, there's some overlaps, but there's also some overlap between people who play D&amp;D and who go bowling*.&nbsp;&nbsp; The overlap isn't that big, and its why TSR/WotC never put a big investment into it - they knew their main market, the RPGers, weren't going to be that interested and time/money spent on a TT game is design time/money not spent on the RPG.* Back in the day, during 2E, one of the groups I played with did Tuesday night bowling.&nbsp;&nbsp; Your bowling score x 10 was XP you got to add to your character.&nbsp;&nbsp; The DM subtracted his score (split among all players) from the total - we had 7-8 players.&nbsp; We usually played 3 games of bowling, and my personal average was about 139 (I was the DM), second best in the group.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Stormonu, post: 9248218, member: 52734"] I think this is the nail on the head right here. The overlap between RPG and TT battles is small. While D&D grew out of TT play, they're essentially separate and appeal to mostly different groups. Yes, there's some overlaps, but there's also some overlap between people who play D&D and who go bowling*. The overlap isn't that big, and its why TSR/WotC never put a big investment into it - they knew their main market, the RPGers, weren't going to be that interested and time/money spent on a TT game is design time/money not spent on the RPG. * Back in the day, during 2E, one of the groups I played with did Tuesday night bowling. Your bowling score x 10 was XP you got to add to your character. The DM subtracted his score (split among all players) from the total - we had 7-8 players. We usually played 3 games of bowling, and my personal average was about 139 (I was the DM), second best in the group. [/QUOTE]

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