Fifth Element
Legend
Are you suggesting we bookmark this thread and check back in 70 years? I think you're missing two points:Brother MacLaren said:I look at as a game that standardized its rules AS SOON AS it went into mass production, and has since become an extremely popular board game. You see "rules changes every 7 years"; I see "NO official rules changes since it went big 70 years ago." I think that consistency has been a huge factor in its success.
1. D&D has only been around for 33 years. When Monopoly was that age, the rules were not solidly established yet.
2. The D&D ruleset is immensely more complicated than Monopoly's. There are far more rules to tinker with, so if there is some "perfect" set of D&D rules to be achieved, it will take far longer to do so than the development of Monopoly's rules.