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The Only Game That can Replace D&D

Started by RPGPundit, April 20, 2025, 02:32:58 AM

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jhkim

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April 28, 2025, 11:22:54 PM
Quote from: Banjo Destructo on April 28, 2025, 03:55:03 PMI don't think pathfinder will take up slack from D&D's failure, they've burned too many bridges by going way off the deep end of woke. They went woke before D&D, they went woke stronger than D&D, and they're already struggling with the bloat of systems they created for 1st edition in order to extend the lifetime of the game without going to a new edition, only to end up going to a new edition anyways, which has shed off some of the people who enjoyed pathfinder.

I think there's going to be a lot of decentralization and balkanization of RPGs. I think anything that is big currently will shrink in size of people playing it, and I don't think anything will really get big again as different niche groups find their own rpgs to get behind.  But that's just a prediction, I'm willing to accept that I could be wrong.

I personally have really enjoyed the balkanization periods in RPGs. I think the late 1980s and the early 2000s (before the d20 boom really hit) had some of the most innovative and varied games. But they were also when RPGs were relatively unpopular.

Tabletop RPGs have had a really strong network effect. People love to play when it's easy to find a group and the material is fairly familiar to everyone. So the most popular game gets even more popular because that's what most people know.
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