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Another aspect I just thought about was that in 90s and 00s there was a lot more diversity of games that were popular. Most people I knew played at least 2 or 3 different games with very different styles and I knew lots of people who never played DnD. Now everybody I talk to seems to play DnD only.

Just the fact that the tile is "D&D map makers..." instead of "RPG map makers..." is very telling.

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Also true. Everyone I knew would have a game of Shadowrun or World of Darkness or whatever else if you wanted. At the very least there were Pathfinder groups.

But now I don't even see Pathfinder out there much.

I think DnD podcasts and webseries and such were incredibly successful in cementing DnD as the only game in town. They brought in a ton of new players who have only heard of DnD and only want to play DnD.

My group has gone through a few systems and we still refer to it as a "D&D" group and just understand that as referring to TTRPGs generally. I wonder how many there are like us.

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