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<blockquote data-quote="Matt Thomason" data-source="post: 8906152" data-attributes="member: 6777331"><p>To be fair, even that didn't really divert much effort away from non-d20 games. It just brought in a heck of a lot of new blood that <em>did</em> make d20 games and supplements. I can remember the visual effect as my local comics+games store had to double the size of their RPG display, rather than replace non-d20 games with d20 stuff. The White Wolf and Chaosium stuff was there before, and still there afterwards.</p><p></p><p>What's probably of more importance is that some of those people that were producing pamphlet-sized d20 adventures grew because of that to be bigger companies that made non-d20 games as well. It was like the RPG company equivalent of training wheels, it helped get a lot of companies launched, and put people in positions to put out their own original games later on. It's possible we might not have a lot of those non-d20 games today if there hadn't been that explosion in 2000 that gave the industry as a whole that much-needed boost.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Matt Thomason, post: 8906152, member: 6777331"] To be fair, even that didn't really divert much effort away from non-d20 games. It just brought in a heck of a lot of new blood that [I]did[/I] make d20 games and supplements. I can remember the visual effect as my local comics+games store had to double the size of their RPG display, rather than replace non-d20 games with d20 stuff. The White Wolf and Chaosium stuff was there before, and still there afterwards. What's probably of more importance is that some of those people that were producing pamphlet-sized d20 adventures grew because of that to be bigger companies that made non-d20 games as well. It was like the RPG company equivalent of training wheels, it helped get a lot of companies launched, and put people in positions to put out their own original games later on. It's possible we might not have a lot of those non-d20 games today if there hadn't been that explosion in 2000 that gave the industry as a whole that much-needed boost. [/QUOTE]
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