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NYT publishing DnD campaign as news (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 35 points 5 months ago (8 children)

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.

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  • [–] 30 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 28 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    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.

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