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Is D&D Still Relevant?

Started by Theory of Games, May 17, 2020, 02:02:16 PM

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Darrin Kelley

#30
May 21, 2020, 09:01:20 PM
D&D is the market leader. It will always be relevant for that reason alone. The winds in the RPG market change by the ebbs and flows in its success.
 

Kuroth

#31
May 21, 2020, 09:15:57 PM
Thankfully, we live in a world today that isn't bound to publishers, though it never really needed to be that way for the ref with initiative.  Many fine games made by people that contribute to this forum, in fact. huzzah!
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Slipshot762

#32
May 21, 2020, 10:00:12 PM
its not relevant to me, I only do D6 Fantasy now. I still say to people "you wanna play D&D?" but I mean we'll be using D6 Fantasy, to play pretty much what you know as D&D, swords wizards orcs n stuff.

Manic Modron

#33
May 22, 2020, 12:16:37 AM
D&D will be relevant so long as people try to emulate, subvert, restore, or reinvent it.

Steven Mitchell

#34
May 22, 2020, 08:29:53 AM
Quote from: Manic Modron;1130882D&D will be relevant so long as people try to emulate, subvert, restore, or reinvent it.

Sometimes even from within.  Think about it--D&D is still relevant despite multiple attempts by the various owners at various times to take it out behind the barn and put it out of their misery!

I guess no one has yet found D&D's phylactery. :D

Eric Diaz

#35
May 22, 2020, 11:49:11 AM
Is D&D relevant? What??? It is 80% of the market or something like that... Newbs think that D&D is synonymous to RPG. Of course it is relevant!

Also, D&D is probably my favorite system and even I wish there was more space (I mean, attention) for different games.

Maybe you mean "is the original version of D&D as written by Gygax and Arneson still relevant" and the answer would still be yes IMO. Just look at tghe 5e DMG and notice how much of that was written by Gygax. Some parts of the game have evolved very little.
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BoxCrayonTales

#36
May 22, 2020, 12:20:24 PM
Quote from: Eric Diaz;1130897Is D&D relevant? What??? It is 80% of the market or something like that... Newbs think that D&D is synonymous to RPG. Of course it is relevant!

Also, D&D is probably my favorite system and even I wish there was more space (I mean, attention) for different games.

Maybe you mean "is the original version of D&D as written by Gygax and Arneson still relevant" and the answer would still be yes IMO. Just look at tghe 5e DMG and notice how much of that was written by Gygax. Some parts of the game have evolved very little.

I was pleasantly surprised when the DMG included a chapter briefly explaining the various cosmologies that have shown up over the years, as well as referencing various neglected campaign settings like Planescape, Spelljammer, and Eberron.

Razor 007

#37
May 22, 2020, 02:13:38 PM
Quote from: Steven Mitchell;1130890I guess no one has yet found D&D's phylactery. :D

Well played.
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VisionStorm

#38
May 22, 2020, 03:52:07 PM
The answer to the thread's title is: "Unfortunately."

There. I said it. Fite meh!

I blame the noobs and the non-gamers. And name recognition. None of them know there's other RPGs and most people are too lazy to learn more than one system, so ironically they just stick to one of the most difficult to learn, cuz it's the only one they know exists.

BoxCrayonTales

#39
May 22, 2020, 05:04:10 PM
I suspect that the reason why D&D was revitalized recently has a lot to do with Stranger Things prominently mentioning it.

Imagine if that had happened while 4e was still published.

Eric Diaz

#40
May 22, 2020, 05:13:35 PM
Quote from: VisionStorm;1130913The answer to the thread's title is: "Unfortunately."

There. I said it. Fite meh!

I blame the noobs and the non-gamers. And name recognition. None of them know there's other RPGs and most people are too lazy to learn more than one system, so ironically they just stick to one of the most difficult to learn, cuz it's the only one they know exists.

I agree that D&D is a complex game, but the second biggest RPG is Pathfinder...
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VisionStorm

#41
May 22, 2020, 07:51:19 PM
Quote from: BoxCrayonTales;1130917I suspect that the reason why D&D was revitalized recently has a lot to do with Stranger Things prominently mentioning it.

Imagine if that had happened while 4e was still published.

I think that Stranger Things helped sales, but I also think that the current edition is more streamlined and noob friendly than every prior edition of the game, other than arguably Basic. And that's just cuz 5e classes are a bloated mess, while 0e barely give you anything. So despite some of my reservations about it, I do think that 5e has some merits that might explain why it's sold better than even 3e.

Quote from: Eric Diaz;1130918I agree that D&D is a complex game, but the second biggest RPG is Pathfinder...

Yeah, but that's just a D&D clone with more options, geared towards D&D die hards who aren't OSR but are also not satisfied with the recent editions of D&D either.
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