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That's how everything works. Literally every CRPG (and every crappy mobile game with an XP/level mechanic) owes an enormous debt to Dungeons & Dragons. WotC is
by TillE 4y ago
That's how everything works. Literally every CRPG (and every crappy mobile game with an XP/level mechanic) owes an enormous debt to Dungeons & Dragons.
WotC is a big company, and D&D is bigger than it's ever been, but like Diablo 4 is gonna net more profit than D&D makes in a decade.
- lelanthran 4y ago> hat's how everything works. Literally every CRPG (and every crappy mobile game with an XP/level mechanic) owes an enormous debt to Dungeons & Dragons And they owe almost everything to the lore from Tolkien's middle-earth.
- notahacker 4y agoAnd Tolkein would be the first to acknowledge all the mythology he borrowed from and was inspired by...
- Drblessing 4y agoAnd mythology would like to thank the cavemen for their compelling cave paintings and campfire stories, which laid the groundwork for millennia of creative storytelling. Without those early artists, who knows where we'd be? Probably still trying to come up with a punchline for "Why did the mammoth cross the glacier?"
- davemp 4y agoYeah almost everything is iterative. WotC is more like SEGA in this scenario though because they only bought out D&D.
- pdntspa 4y agoSo, what, D&D owns fantasy or something? Ha ha.... no. I don't recall Diablo ever messing about with THAC0 or D&D specific rules. Cribbing "level up" mechanics is about the same level as music sampling the amen break. An enormous debt might be owed, sure, but the concept is a public good now and said debt is uncollectable.
- badsectoracula 4y ago> owes an enormous debt to Dungeons & Dragons. And D&D owes to the wargames that preceded it. Nothing exists in a vacuum.