@swordsnstones Thanks for the comment. There are a few 5E players that are expanding out into other RPG's, but yes, many just want to stick with WoTC games
You know, when I look back on my childhood, I grew up very D&D-adjacent. I'm a 90's kid who grew up with Saturday Anime on the SciFi Channel, which ran the first couple episodes of the Record of Lodoss War OVA, which was my favorite anime as a child. I also have to mention TV shows like Dexter's Lab that had a D&D episode and shareware DOS games from America Online like Gladiator and Arena that featured mages and liches as playable characters. The first time I heard of D&D was in high school, where I think a classmate was trying to get me to play, but I just wasn't interested at the time as I was chasing girls. Then I got my first sip of D&D through a friend when I was serving in the militarily when he took me though a couple solo hybrid LARP adventures that saw my evil character become the winged snake god Quetzalcoatl. I was hooked at that point, but my friendship with that DM ended, and so did my campaign. Ten years later, around 2016, I started looking up D&D videos for some reason and stumbled upon Critical Role. I never finished watching the first campaign of Matt Mercer and Vox Machina, but I caught the D&D bug again. Last year I had my first formal D&D campaign with my friend and a group of acquaintances...that promptly ended after 3 sessions when my psychologist friend got into a heated arguement with the DM and called him a narcissist. I finally got my D&D fix after uploading the corebook PDFs to ChatGPT and letting it run solo campaigns for me as a DM. You guys are so right because I found and uploaded rulebooks and played enjoyed campaigns outside of D&D, like Arrows of Indra, Godbound, The Wheel of Time RPG, and Star Wars the RPG. I have to say, that as a black kid and an immigrant growing up in New York City, I had no direct knowledge of D&D but would have jumped at the opportunity to play. But now that I'm older, I'm glad that I have this hobby in my life at this time. So I want to say thanks for making this video, good stuff.
@Mandy3735 Thank you for the post. Glad you liked this episode and found us. Glad you have found some fun. Group dynamics can surely causing game ending play, I think we talk about it a lot in other episodes :-P Glad to have you in the World of Gaming
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In essence i think so ya, although with the amount of rpgs available nowadays prob not as much as when i started in 1980
@swordsnstones Thanks for the comment. There are a few 5E players that are expanding out into other RPG's, but yes, many just want to stick with WoTC games
You know, when I look back on my childhood, I grew up very D&D-adjacent. I'm a 90's kid who grew up with Saturday Anime on the SciFi Channel, which ran the first couple episodes of the Record of Lodoss War OVA, which was my favorite anime as a child. I also have to mention TV shows like Dexter's Lab that had a D&D episode and shareware DOS games from America Online like Gladiator and Arena that featured mages and liches as playable characters. The first time I heard of D&D was in high school, where I think a classmate was trying to get me to play, but I just wasn't interested at the time as I was chasing girls. Then I got my first sip of D&D through a friend when I was serving in the militarily when he took me though a couple solo hybrid LARP adventures that saw my evil character become the winged snake god Quetzalcoatl. I was hooked at that point, but my friendship with that DM ended, and so did my campaign. Ten years later, around 2016, I started looking up D&D videos for some reason and stumbled upon Critical Role. I never finished watching the first campaign of Matt Mercer and Vox Machina, but I caught the D&D bug again. Last year I had my first formal D&D campaign with my friend and a group of acquaintances...that promptly ended after 3 sessions when my psychologist friend got into a heated arguement with the DM and called him a narcissist. I finally got my D&D fix after uploading the corebook PDFs to ChatGPT and letting it run solo campaigns for me as a DM. You guys are so right because I found and uploaded rulebooks and played enjoyed campaigns outside of D&D, like Arrows of Indra, Godbound, The Wheel of Time RPG, and Star Wars the RPG. I have to say, that as a black kid and an immigrant growing up in New York City, I had no direct knowledge of D&D but would have jumped at the opportunity to play. But now that I'm older, I'm glad that I have this hobby in my life at this time. So I want to say thanks for making this video, good stuff.
@Mandy3735 Thank you for the post. Glad you liked this episode and found us. Glad you have found some fun. Group dynamics can surely causing game ending play, I think we talk about it a lot in other episodes :-P Glad to have you in the World of Gaming