So you agree that D&D is popular because a lot of people like it?
What you are or are not happy or okay with is not important. Everything isn't about you and your feels. D&D is the hub of RPGs whether you like it or not. Whether I am happy with it or not is just as unimportant. Things are what they are not what you want them to be.
You seem to think that lots of people liking and enjoying D&D is somehow a problem. It might be a problem for you but everything isn't about you and your feels. For all of the people playing and enjoying D&D, there is no problem. There never has been. Can't get some other system you like better going? That's unfortunate for you but you can't always get what you want in a social hobby like this.
In other words, you have nothing at all. Your assertions are just as baseless and unsupported as they appeared at first glance.
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As said, it goes without saying.
The question is why no other game comes near, despite being just as good, and just as enjoyed as it.
And your answer is simply "Because it is". No real explanation, or even attempt at it, just "It is".
As you may have noticed, that is not much of an answer to me.
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"What you are or are not happy or okay with is not important. Everything isn't about you and your feels. D&D is the hub of RPGs whether you like it or not. Whether I am happy with it or not is just as unimportant. Things are what they are not what you want them to be."
That is something I can return to you without problem.
Do anything say that what makes YOU happy or ok with is more important than what I am happy or ok with?
No, and if I claimed that you just did, you would point out that that is not what you said.
So, essentially, this conversation, in extension, is obviously completely unimportant, because what I feel is not important, what You feel is not important, what Anyone feels is not important, because it is not about that individual either.
Nice try.
It doesn't work that way.
If things weren't close enough to how you wanted or liked them to be, it is very possible we would not have this argument now.
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"You seem to think that lots of people liking and enjoying D&D is somehow a problem."
No, that is not my problem.
At least not nowadays, but I admit that it used to be.
My "problem" is that too many thinks that D&D is the Only rpg that is playable, or even exist.
But, as the resident old codger just pointed out, I have no numbers to back up my impression, so I might be wrong.
And yet, D&D is still the most known.
Also:
"That's unfortunate for you but you can't always get what you want in a social hobby like this."
So, you are happy, and i'm not, and you are fine with that.
That is a very good message, y'know.
It really shows how you are as a person.
In other words, this specific part of the discussion started because you obviously did not understand why people tried to explain D&D's popularity, and as I have tried to explain, your main response has been "It works for me, If it doesn't work for you, then it is your problem, and not mine."
Sure, you did not say it with those words, but that is the end result.
I did what I could to explain, it is not my problem now if you keep ignoring how it may be for non-D&D-players out there.