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<blockquote data-quote="schneeland" data-source="post: 8300008" data-attributes="member: 6900337"><p>I concur with [USER=7026422]@Uta-napishti[/USER] - D&D doesn't dominate the market in Germany in the same way it does in US, but it is a fairly popular system. DSA/TDE is probably equally popular or at least close, and Call of Cthulhu and Shadowrun form a solide second tier (Shadowrun 6e is seeing noticably less positive reviews than earlier editions, though). And there is a number of smaller systems like Dungeon Crawl Classics and Free League games, which are also well regarded and have a solid player base.</p><p></p><p>I disagree regarding the quality of the translations of the current editions, though. The first printing of the player's handbook had severe issues and it took Ulisses multiple printings to fix the issues. And even for newer titles the quality varies a lot (this doesn't only affect D&D, though).</p><p>Admittedly, some of the problems are WotC problems - with 5th edition they have chosen to abandon the long tradition of translation more or less all names and replaced some of them with English words (probably for branding reasons), which makes the texts a lot less pleasant to read than those of 2nd and 3rd edition (cannot speak for 1st edition as I only started mid 90s).</p><p></p><p>I don't expect the latter problem to go away, but we also neither have a German SRD nor a German version of D&D Beyond - maybe we will see improvements in this area.</p><p></p><p>In any case, unless Ulisses pivots their publishing strategy for DSA/TDE, I see D&D gaining more ground - IMO compared to the former it is has a noticably lower entry barrier and the popularity of D&D streaming and the massive D&D online presence put in a better position than most of its competitors.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="schneeland, post: 8300008, member: 6900337"] I concur with [USER=7026422]@Uta-napishti[/USER] - D&D doesn't dominate the market in Germany in the same way it does in US, but it is a fairly popular system. DSA/TDE is probably equally popular or at least close, and Call of Cthulhu and Shadowrun form a solide second tier (Shadowrun 6e is seeing noticably less positive reviews than earlier editions, though). And there is a number of smaller systems like Dungeon Crawl Classics and Free League games, which are also well regarded and have a solid player base. I disagree regarding the quality of the translations of the current editions, though. The first printing of the player's handbook had severe issues and it took Ulisses multiple printings to fix the issues. And even for newer titles the quality varies a lot (this doesn't only affect D&D, though). Admittedly, some of the problems are WotC problems - with 5th edition they have chosen to abandon the long tradition of translation more or less all names and replaced some of them with English words (probably for branding reasons), which makes the texts a lot less pleasant to read than those of 2nd and 3rd edition (cannot speak for 1st edition as I only started mid 90s). I don't expect the latter problem to go away, but we also neither have a German SRD nor a German version of D&D Beyond - maybe we will see improvements in this area. In any case, unless Ulisses pivots their publishing strategy for DSA/TDE, I see D&D gaining more ground - IMO compared to the former it is has a noticably lower entry barrier and the popularity of D&D streaming and the massive D&D online presence put in a better position than most of its competitors. [/QUOTE]
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