Yeah. D&D truly only persists because of corporate inertia and the nostalgia that our current crop of film and television producers shovel onto our heads
It’s astounding what first mover advantage does.
Within years of the first books there were already far, far better systems like Tunnels & Trolls or RuneQuest.
But no, people still today play the worst one.
D&D wasn’t even the first IIRC. There were other role-playing games at the time, including fantasy RPGs. D&D was among the first fantasy RPGs to have a commercial release. A lot of games were unique to each DM, running their own homebrews.
Then there’s all the wargames and detective/mystery games RPGs grew out of that existed for decades (in some cases centuries) before D&D.
But yeah. It’s like the worst system. The more I hear about it and its history, the more I want to continue never playing it.
Yea. And if that is too numbers for your liking (it certainly is for me) there is World of Darkness, Fabula Ultima and countless other games that are simply better then D&D.
Please don’t call everything D&D. They don’t deserve that much space in your mind palace that you would call all make believe D&D.
Yeah. D&D truly only persists because of corporate inertia and the nostalgia that our current crop of film and television producers shovel onto our heads
It’s astounding what first mover advantage does. Within years of the first books there were already far, far better systems like Tunnels & Trolls or RuneQuest. But no, people still today play the worst one.
D&D wasn’t even the first IIRC. There were other role-playing games at the time, including fantasy RPGs. D&D was among the first fantasy RPGs to have a commercial release. A lot of games were unique to each DM, running their own homebrews.
Then there’s all the wargames and detective/mystery games RPGs grew out of that existed for decades (in some cases centuries) before D&D.
But yeah. It’s like the worst system. The more I hear about it and its history, the more I want to continue never playing it.
You know, Pathfinder fixes this...
and is unionized!
Yea. And if that is too numbers for your liking (it certainly is for me) there is World of Darkness, Fabula Ultima and countless other games that are simply better then D&D.
I played Putin in Call of Cthulhu and you WONT believe what that tells us about society
Putin ended the game with only a sanity score of 13. This demonstrates he has a predilection for mental instability.
It’s a wargame but some people don’t have room for abstractions like that. Wargaming has been a part of military planning since Clausewitz.