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Path: Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 23:26:44 +0000 From: Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.dnd Subject: Re: [The Guardian] Dungeons & Dragons at 50: the collaborative fantasy role-playing game that builds you up Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 19:26:43 -0400 Message-ID: <fs3vui9tp1pn3apa5t1v5f1i8mhj3889rt@4ax.com> References: <usku4u$3o29g$1@sibirocobombus.campaignwiki> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 31 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-FP9IKt0cGE8zk5+Xpb11fA+UT7TzoM0sGoXAyjPRCYVCwGWpYJfa1/zZryb3cYUh4s9fQSdeVV8raXZ!nIkF3HT2AzKIA3JBLUb0iLnxo5m34wRWa59O97afpcY7QtAfV52t2aS1B4UG5HrYLISpBNI= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2614 On Sun, 10 Mar 2024 19:28:50 +0100, kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote: >Source: >https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/mar/10/dungeons-and-dragons-at-50-the-collaborative-fantasy-roleplaying-game-that-builds-you-up > >Dungeons & Dragons at 50: the collaborative fantasy role-playing game >that builds you up So much hype about the 50th anniversary. You have to start wondering how much of it is actual journalism, and how much of it is really just paid advertorial. Especially given recent rumors about Hasbro selling D&D to Tencent; are they just seeding the news to make it look like D&D is bigger (and thus, a more valuable property) than it really is? Or maybe it is that popular, and is really worthy of all the reporting? Am I just being too cynical? Perhaps I'm just unconsciously gate-keeping, trying to keep the 'plebian' masses from playing my geeky, forbidden hobby? I don't have a hard time believing D&D is fifty years old (I have a much harder time accepting that Star Wars is nearly of the same age, though! There's no way Luke Skywalker can be pushing 70!!!;-). In many ways, it /still/ feels like a game born in the 1970s. I think one of the reasons all this news reporting on its popularity and longevity is so triggering to me is that it ignores all the work done by OTHER tabletop game publishers to help keep the hobby alive. I'm not sure tabletop gaming would still be a thing had it just been up to TSR/WOTC/Hasbro alone...