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Why in the West D&D is allways the most popular?

Started by antonioGUAK, April 27, 2025, 08:16:31 AM

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D-ko

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May 04, 2025, 04:46:09 AM
Didn't Japan have its own version of D&D as well, turned into a full-fledged game and anime? Lodoss? I'm not entirely familiar but it seems like that was a spinoff that gained more traction than official DnD there
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kosmos1214

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Today at 01:37:57 AM
Quote from: yosemitemike on May 04, 2025, 12:53:40 AM
Quote from: kosmos1214 on May 04, 2025, 12:50:37 AMIt seems that depending on exactly how the story all fits together the dice story may be either untrue or more complicated. It could even have just been that you needed to buy polyhedral at a gaming store. That alone could have been the reason and the story about cost and rarity could be over blown.

I just know what I have read but I have seen the high cost of dice mentioned multiple times. 
Fair I am probably being overly pedantic trying to fit the puzzle together. I am sorry if I came off as to pointed with my argument.

Quote from: D-ko on May 04, 2025, 04:46:09 AMDidn't Japan have its own version of D&D as well, turned into a full-fledged game and anime? Lodoss? I'm not entirely familiar but it seems like that was a spinoff that gained more traction than official DnD there
Yes they did its a 2D6 only system called sword world and its kinda neat in a way. That said its sort of baked to do what it does more so then dnd and I'm not sure how far you could bend it off its core concept before it breaks down.
There is a pretty good set of videos by the group fan translating the system in 3 parts.
The short of it is the current edition is 2.5 and it like the dark eye has moved pretty far from the systems layed out by dnd.
part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSHLnioFuFA
part 3 history of 2.0 starts here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_FKC0fgUOU&t
part 4 2.5 and current
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqaAb25rZqs
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