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30 Years of D&D Extravaganza
Klytus writes "GamingReport.com is reporting on the events Wizards of the Coast has planned for this summer's 30th Anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons. Amongst the events is a 'World D&D Game Day.' There are also plans for a large coffee table book on the 30 years of D&D."
In 1997, Wizards of the Coast, publishers of the Magic: The Gathering(R) trading card game, acquired TSR, and with it all the rights to D&D. They released the totally revamped 3rd Edition at GenCon 2000, which was a wild success. V3.5 was the most recent update.
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Yup, TSR went bankrupt.
Here's an old salon.com article which, interestingly, comes to the conclusion that TSR failed because it behaved like the Microsoft of RPG publishers: closed source and a lot of law suites. WotC published the rules for the new D&D under the so-called OGL (open gaming license), which has similarities to open source. Now everybody can write and even sell games using the D&D rules set. You just can't call it D&D.
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1) D&D is bigger because D&D was first. It has 10 years lead time on other modern gaming systems.
2) any gaming system can be acceptable with a good gm, but if you have constantly use modified rules and change the objectives the problem is the system.
3) I was not expressing an opinion on D20, ONLY on D&D itself
4) While I agree that many games do get their players from D&D games...you can also say many people have been turned off from roleplaying entirely by D&D.
I played D&D for several years, the system ITSELF encourages bad roleplaying(munchkins), depicts genocide of "evil" races as a good thing(see that lovely alignment system)and generally promotes a rigid view of roleplaying.
Id like to also address these moderators who moderated me as a troll or flamebait. Expressing a sincere and honest opinion is NOT trolling, stating a controversial opinion you honestly believe is not flamebaiting. If you are angry at someones post, please DONT MODERATE that post.
They've been available for months. As the Standard Reference Document at www.opengamingfoundation.org or at www.rpgbooks.com The RPGbooks deal is pretty good. Order the PDF, and every time there's an update, they'll tell you and you get it for free. I keep a copy on my Palm.